Whaling Forum sinks Japan whale trade plan

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Japan's attempts to "reopen the commercial trade in whale products" have been frustrated at an international conference, conservationists claimed Wednesday.

Japan had proposed setting up a review to consider whether all of the great whale species should remain on an endangered list that prevents international trade in those products.

A counterproposal from Australia that stated that no review of any great whale should occur while the IWC's ban was in place, was adopted by 60 votes for and 23 against, and again 13 countries abstained.

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