Good news - Hopefully the end of commercial seal hunt in europe! Only three boats remain in the Norwegian seal-hunting fleet as the practice has declined and markets have dwindled for its products, exacerbated by an EU import ban agreed in 2009. Oslo has now said that it intends to cut a 12 million krone (£1.1 million) subsidy. says the times (thetimes.co.uk). Norway’s hunting businesses are buoyed by 80 percent subsidy, according to Amund Ringdal, the state secretary of Norway’s Ministry of Fisheries. Read more, at The Dodo, here thedodo/end-to-seal-hunting-subsidy-785266637.html
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:17:21 +0000
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