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Interests Collide: Whalers and Whale Watchers at Odds
Iceland's outgoing Minister of Fisheries raised the country's whaling quota five-fold just before leaving office. In a country where environmentalism is strong and whale watching is growing in the tourism industry, the whale hunters believe that they are bringing back Icelandic tradition while helping a suffering economy.