Greenland natives accused of abusing whaling quota

Greenland's native people are selling around a quarter of their subsistence whale catch to local supermarkets for profit, an undercover investigation by an animal welfare group showed yesterday.

The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) said hidden cameras probing the North Atlantic island's whaling industry found that not only were whalers selling catch intended for local consumption to foreigners, but at least 15 tons of whale meat caught over the past two years was unsold.

"Our investigation found supermarket freezers full of whale products and stockpiles of unsold whale meat from 2006," a member of the WSPA's undercover team said.