Reports from Tokyo suggest that Japan will allow the import of 65 tonnes of whale meat sent from Iceland last June. The meat, which was impounded by customes on arrival, consists of  around 60 tonnes of fin whale meat from Iceland's whaling company Hvalur hf, and about five tonnes of minke meat exported by the Norwegian company Myklebust Trading.

Japan's whaling fleet has set sail once again for Antarctic waters to kill a huge number of whales for so-called 'research'. The fleet is expected to return in April of next year with a haul of 935 minke and 50 fin whales.

Iceland's whalers have belatedly been granted a quota of 40 minke whales to kill over the next few months but the government is clearly divided over the issue with Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir warning that resuming the whale hunt could damage Iceland's "long term interests".

Japan has announced it will not kill 50 humpback whales this winter after talks with the United States have increased fears that a political deal is imminent that will lift the 22 year ban on commercial whaling.

On October 4th, Campaign Whale Director Andy Ottaway and MEP Caroline Lucas met with Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas in Brussels, handing him a 110,000 hand-signed petition calling for the EU to do more to protect whales and stop commercial whaling.

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Members of the Makah tribe of the north-west USA illegally killed a grey whale on Saturday 8th September. Although commercial whaling is banned in the United States, the Makah tribe claim they have a cultural, and Treaty right with the US Government, to hunt whales after a lapse of over 70 years.

Town councillors in Taiji, Japan, scene of countless cruel dolphin slaughters, have revealed that schoolchildren in the area have been served dolphin meat containing dangerous levels of mercury, prompting warnings of a potential public health disaster as the country attempts to boost consumption of cetacean meat.