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Whale  blood runs back into the Southern Ocean from the decks of a Japanese  whaling vessel. While Japan's whaling is ostensibly scientific in  nature, Norway and Iceland simply hunt commercially in spite of the IWC  moratorium, said Henry. "Iceland acts with complete impunity," said  Henry. "They essentially conduct their whaling in an unsustainable  manner with no oversight from the IWC."

Japan,  Iceland, and Norway have together killed more than 30,000 whales since  the international moratorium on commercial whaling was enacted in 1986,  according to IWC statistics.