World
Fin whale season kicks off
(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-06-30 14:49
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 A worker (R) hoses a fin whale down as others tow it up a ramp to a processing plant at the Hvalfjordur whaling station, about 70 km (43.5 miles) north of Reykjavik June 29, 2010. Three fin whales were caught in waters to the west of Iceland on Tuesday during the start of the fin whale season. A worldwide moratorium on commercial whaling remains in place after talks to replace it with a controlled cull of some species collapsed on June 23, 2010 at the International Whaling Commission's (IWC) annual meeting. [Agencies] |
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 Workers extract meat from a fin whale at the Hvalfjordur whaling station, about 70 km (43.5 miles) north of Reykjavik June 29, 2010. [Agencies] |