Hi, I have been reading this thread, and it's most interesting. However I would like to add a few things. To start with the meat from the whales that were hunted last year, there is nothing left of it.

Fact: 60% of Icelandic people support whaling. 40% do not.

The Fin whales and their endangerment. There are many "groups" of them in the sea, in the northen atlandic ocean, in the pacific, india ocean, and more. These whales are not endangered, according to research. If we believed them to be endangered we wouldn't hunt them. (Try coming here and see the whales for yourself, there is plenty of them)

It's also weird that the US gov. doesn't like Icelandic whaling, but the US has hunted whales for many years in the pacific, they still hunt them.   I find this a little sarcastic.

I live in the north part of Iceland, in akureyri, I have eaten whale, it was barbequed and tasted ok. We don't eat it everyday.