article_snippet.sent: Last year Norway – as well as Japan and Iceland – killed around 730 Minke whales, the highest number since Norway – as well as Japan and Iceland – broke the moratorium on commercial whaling in 1993.
article_snippet.sent: Last season, 731 minke whales were killed in Norway off the country’s northern coasts.
article_snippet.sent: The whaling season runs from April to August, when 731 minke whales are hunted from boats using grenade-propelled harpoons, which are shot from cannons into the whale’s chest.
article_snippet.sent: Last year 731 minke whales suffered an agonising death at the hand of Norwegian whalers, according to WDC.
article_snippet.sent: Pictured is a minke whale on the deck of a Japanese vessel .
article_snippet.sent: interrupt whaling on board a Japanese vessel in the Southern whaling grounds in the North Sea .