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"Madam President, if we can imagine a horse having two or three explosive spears stuck in its stomach and being made to pull a butcher’s truck through the streets of London while it pours blood into the gutter we shall have an idea of the method of killing.
‘The gunners themselves admit that if whales could scream the industry would stop, for nobody would be able to stand it.’ These are the words of Dr Harry Lillie, a ship’s physician on an Antarctic whaling trip in the 1940s. Recent studies show that it still takes on average between two minutes and over one hour for a harpooned whale to die.
In 1982 the world agreed on an international moratorium on the commercial whale hunt because stocks were acutely depleted, and ever since three countries have persisted in continuing the hunt – Japan, Iceland and Norway.
Next week the International Whaling Commission will meet in Agadir and the EU has to take a decision on the Chair’s Proposal. I must stress that I am appalled that my own home country, Sweden, has been pushing for this compromise, and I want to bring to your attention the fatal weaknesses of any of the compromises that have been discussed.
Any quotas that can be set by the scientific committee must be set in line with a ‘tuning level’. This tuning level is 0.72 and it means that we accept that the stock should be at 72% of its virgin state. It is very important to keep this in mind should we agree to any compromise, and not to go below that tuning level. No hunting should be allowed in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary. Threatened species are included in this compromise. We should not break the principles of protecting threatened species in the UN’s International Year of Biodiversity."@en1
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