Anti-whaling nations chastised Japan on Tuesday for its plans to double the number of whales it catches under its scientific whaling programme, which critics say exploits a loophole in a ban on commercial hunting.

Japan lashed out at anti-whaling nations on Tuesday after its proposal to resume limited commercial hunting was voted down by an international commission and its “scientific” harvesting heavily criticised.

Anyone travelling by ferry across the Irish Sea should bring a good pair of binoculars as a dolphin bonanza is there to be enjoyed. On Tuesday 21st June a survey on board the Isle of Inishmore to Pembroke recorded no less than 3,000 common dolphins in one of the biggest supergroups recorded in the Irish

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Hot on the heels of a sighting on June 6th of a fin whale one mile east of Rockabill, we’ve now received a report of two large whales off Howth Head on 18th June.

A delegation from the IWDG led by Dave Wall, Mac & Darrel McCormick located the interred carcass of the female Sowreby’s whale that was buried on Ballytrent beach near Rosslare last August.

Pro-whaling nations suffered an early setback on Monday by losing a key vote at an international whaling meeting where they are aiming to take a majority and roll back conservationist measures.

Despite the fears of conservationists, anti-whaling nations carried the first day of this year’s International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting. BBC

Pro-whaling nations have lost two early votes as this year’s International Whaling Commission meeting began. BBC

Schoolchildren in the western coastal district of Wakayama are now being offered an unusual addition to their lunch menus… Whale. BBC

The annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the only international forum devoted to whales, begins on June 20 in Ulsan, South Korea, a former whaling port.