Subject: Whaling and Sealing - High North Web available

From: [email-masked] (Simen Gaure)
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:50:53 +0200

I have been asked by the secretary of the High North Alliance
([email-masked]), Georg Blichfeldt, to publicize the availability
of the High North Web at
 
             <http://www.highnorth.no/>
 
The site contains, among other things, a comprehensive collection of
texts on marine mammal management and related issues.
 
>From  <http://www.highnorth.no/hnatext.htm>:
 
<QUOTE>
About the High North Alliance

      The office of the High North Alliance (HNA) is situated in Reine,
      the Lofoten Islands, Norway (photos) - a fishing hamlet with a
      population of 400.  The organisation, whose staff consists of one
      full-time and one part-time employee, was founded in 1991 as a
      result of cooperation by the Lofoten Regional Council (Lofotredet)
      and the Nordland Small-type Whaler's Association.

      The organisation was established in response to the campaigns
      calling for a total ban on all commercial whaling and sealing; and
      the even more radical ones calling for a total ban on the killing of
      marine mammals for any reason whatsoever.  HNA's task is to provide
      alternative information to these campaigns.  The organisation's
      objective is to protect the rights of whalers, sealers and fishermen
      to harvest renewable resources in accordance with the principle of
      sustainable management.  HNA also works towards consolidating the
      knowledge and skills necessary for the ecologically sound management
      of marine mammal resources.
      [...]
<END QUOTE>

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Simen Gaure, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo