Well it seems as if there adifferent opinions from one Icelander to another from what I'm reading on this thread. Skarpi's already laid out a pretty fair view of how people view whale hunting in Iceland & it sounds logical to me, it's usually the case of governments doing as they please without the will of the people behind them. If GuestIcelander would like to show something that backs up his/her claim I'd like to see it. But I'm already thrown off by one statement that "the US has hunted whales for many years in the pacific". I can find fault with plenty that my country does but it does not suffer whale hunting in any waters. Unless GuestIcelander is going back the 1850's? Also the statement that "these (Fin) whales are not endangered, according to research", they are on the endangered list & research or no research, nothing changes that. They are an endangered species. When I lived in Hawaii I'd see plenty of Sperm & Humpback whales that doesn't give evidence that they're endangered or not nor does seeing herds in the North Alantic, science has comme a long way from using that kind of logic, thank heavens.