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September 3, 2004

Norway wraps up whaling season

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS SERVICE

On Aug. 31, the Norwegian whaling season ends, although whalers stored away their harpoons several weeks ago after landing only 543 minke whales out of a quota of 670.

Norway is the only country in the world to permit commercial whaling and officials want even higher quotas.

“We wish to increase the quota of catches to levels that remain sustainable,” Jorhill Andreassen from the Norwegian fisheries department said in May, following a vote by Norwegian members of parliament calling for an increase in whaling.

The quota may rise to 745 next year, a number the government says is acceptable to the International Whaling Commission’s scientific committee.

September 3, 2004

Russian city dumps raw sewage into Arctic sea

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS SERVICE

More than 200,000 tons of waste water are discharged into the Kola Bay in Murmansk every year. The waste is discharged directly into the water.

Murmansk, a city of nearly 400,000 has no waste water treatment plant.

This year the region’s authorities budgeted four million rubles to build a waste treatment facility, but this won’t be enough to complete the new plant’s construction.

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