
By DAVID JOLLY
Published: June 23, 2010
PARIS — Talks aimed at reducing whaling by Japan, Norway and Iceland collapsed Wednesday, effectively leaving management of whale populations in the hands of the hunters.
After two days of private negotiations, Anthony Liverpool, the acting chairman of the International Whaling Commission, told delegates meeting in Agadir, Morocco, that “fundamental positions remained very much apart,” The Associated Press reported.
Delegates of the commission’s 88 member governments had been discussing whether to maintain a 24-year-old moratorium on commercial whaling. A compromise plan proposed by the United States and other antiwhaling nations would have allowed the three countries to resume commercial whaling but at significantly lower levels and under tight monitoring.....
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