2024 due to lack of demand. Good on you Icelanders! The fishery minister, a member of the Left-Green party, wrote in an Icelandic newspaper, "there are few justification to authorize the whale hunt beyond 2024. The annual quota for 2019-23 is set at 209 fin whales and 217 minke whales, but two of the licensed commercial hunters have suspended operations. Only one minke whale has been killed in the last three years. The hunt has become too expensive as an inshore no-fishing zone has been extended farther out, requiring harpooners to go farther out to sea. Food safety regulations made it more difficult for the country to export whale products. The last full season was in 2018, after the country resumed whaling in contravention of the 1986 international moratorium in 2006. Only Japan and Norway remain as the planet's last whaling nations. [photo credit: Sea Shepherds]