After a boat trip to Iceland’s new whale sanctuary, tourists will be able to hop off for lunch at a harbourside restaurant where the most popular menu item is whale steak in béarnaise sauce.
Iceland’s double standards were exposed yesterday at the launch of a scheme to provide a seaside retirement home for performing whales.
The Icelandic government approved the sanctuary but last week resumed whaling after a gap of three years, with a ship landing a 20m fin whale at a port on the country’s west coast. Iceland has granted itself a quota for this year of up to 238 fin whales, which are an endangered species.
However, Katrin Jakobsdottir, Iceland’s new “Left-Green” prime minister, has promised a review of whaling this autumn amid