Whales will be counted this summer By Sunna Karen Sigurþórsdóttir 13. febrúar 2015 15:08 visir/vilhelm Whales will be counted in the North Atlantic next summer, for the first time in eight years. The plan is to assess the stock size of whales and if the whales are increasing. The nations carrying out the search include, in addition to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway and Greenland, but it is organized by the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission, NAMMCO. The Icelandic Marine Research Institute got a special government appropriation for this project to the amount of 150 million kronas. The counting will take place in June/July and the research vessel Bjarni Sæmundsson will be used for the counting along with a tramp vessel. Jóhann Sigurjónsson, CEO of the Icelandic Marine Research Institute, says that it is important that the counting will be done on a regular basis. "We put a great emphasis on that the counting would take place this year, but if more time passes then the hunting consultancy will be more cautious. But these are slowly growing creatures that become old, so there will not be any dramatic changes from one year to another. So it's O.K. to do this every five to seven years," he says. Multinational whale counting started in the High North in the year of 1986. Since then, there have been four countings: in the year of 1989, 1995, 2001 and 2007, but in the year of 2009 a counting of mink-whales was carried out from a plane. The counting carried out in the year of 2007 was the most comprehensive one. News in English Mest lesið „Dökk að utan en mjólkurhvít að innan“ Innlent Sár yfir Nóbelnum og rak Modi í faðm Xi Erlent Skipagöng ólíklegri eftir að tilboð reyndust of há Erlent „Mikill léttir“ af nýjum þingflokksformanni Innlent Ósammála því að jarðvarmavirkjanir séu í losunarbókhaldinu Innlent Þjóðin sé orðin þreytt á málþófi Innlent Björguðu ketti sem var fastur inni í Teslu Innlent Ísland standi frammi fyrir hamfarakólnun verði ekkert gert Innlent Vilja búa til „friðarfána“ svo ekki þurfi að flagga erlendum fánum Innlent Skorar á verktaka að lækka íbúðaverð Innlent
Whales will be counted in the North Atlantic next summer, for the first time in eight years. The plan is to assess the stock size of whales and if the whales are increasing. The nations carrying out the search include, in addition to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway and Greenland, but it is organized by the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission, NAMMCO. The Icelandic Marine Research Institute got a special government appropriation for this project to the amount of 150 million kronas. The counting will take place in June/July and the research vessel Bjarni Sæmundsson will be used for the counting along with a tramp vessel. Jóhann Sigurjónsson, CEO of the Icelandic Marine Research Institute, says that it is important that the counting will be done on a regular basis. "We put a great emphasis on that the counting would take place this year, but if more time passes then the hunting consultancy will be more cautious. But these are slowly growing creatures that become old, so there will not be any dramatic changes from one year to another. So it's O.K. to do this every five to seven years," he says. Multinational whale counting started in the High North in the year of 1986. Since then, there have been four countings: in the year of 1989, 1995, 2001 and 2007, but in the year of 2009 a counting of mink-whales was carried out from a plane. The counting carried out in the year of 2007 was the most comprehensive one.
News in English Mest lesið „Dökk að utan en mjólkurhvít að innan“ Innlent Sár yfir Nóbelnum og rak Modi í faðm Xi Erlent Skipagöng ólíklegri eftir að tilboð reyndust of há Erlent „Mikill léttir“ af nýjum þingflokksformanni Innlent Ósammála því að jarðvarmavirkjanir séu í losunarbókhaldinu Innlent Þjóðin sé orðin þreytt á málþófi Innlent Björguðu ketti sem var fastur inni í Teslu Innlent Ísland standi frammi fyrir hamfarakólnun verði ekkert gert Innlent Vilja búa til „friðarfána“ svo ekki þurfi að flagga erlendum fánum Innlent Skorar á verktaka að lækka íbúðaverð Innlent