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South Korea wants whale quota too if Japan gets deal
Anti-whaling groups fear South Korea and other countries will resume whaling if Japan gets permission for limited "coastal" catches on its coasts in return for stopping its controversial "scientific" whaling in Antarctica.
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Reuters Alertnet | S.Korea wants whale quota if Japan gets deal: NGOs | 04-12-2012
A panel of the IWC - the International Whaling Commission - is seeking a compromise deal for its annual meeting in Madeira in June to let Japan hunt minkes off its coast in return for ending Antarctic whaling or limiting it to sustainable levels.
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"This sets a really dangerous precedent which South Korea underlined by saying that 'if Japan has impoverished coastal communities and wants a quota, then so have we'," said Claire Bass of the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA).
"We should be closing the loopholes that permit whaling rather than creating new loopholes," a spokesman for the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) told Reuters.
Japan, which defends its right to scientific catches, has also long sought a quota of 150 minke whales for coastal areas it says have been impoverished by the 1986 global moratorium on whaling.
Primary source â–º S.Korea wants whale quota if Japan gets deal: NGOs
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