Commercial whaling may well have been banned for the last 33 years, but some might question whether the threat posed to cetaceans ever truly went away.
Earlier this year, Japan incurred the wrath of much of the international community when it decided to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission – the international body that since 1986 has been tasked with whale conservation – and resume hunting whales for profit. Both Norway and Iceland have also continued to flout IWC guidelines, and...