The Icelandic government plans to submit a bill prohibiting commercial whaling to the parliament in February next year. If passed, Japan and Norway will be the only countries in the world that continue commercial whaling. According to a Reuters report on the 10th, the bill will include a “permanent ban on commercial whaling.” The International Whaling Commission began implementing a ban on commercial whaling in 1986. In recent years, only Iceland, Norway, and Japan are still engaged in commercial whaling activities. Commercial whaling resumed in Norway in 1993. Japan, on the other hand, has been fishing for a long time in the name of scientific research, and withdrew from the International Whaling Commission in 2019 to resume commercial whaling. Commercial whaling resumed in Iceland in 2006. In 2024, the then caretaker government of Iceland granted the country's only whaling company a 5-year whaling license. At the end of the same year, a new Icelandic government took office, and the ruling coalition held a majority of seats in Parliament. Reuters quoted Wendy Higgins, a spokesman for an animal protection organization, as saying that the bill proposed by the Icelandic government to ban commercial whaling is highly supported by the political community and the public, and it is hoped that it will be passed.

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