as a sort of expert on commercial fishing/fisheries management and economics, absolutely not especially to the degree where it is worth the backlash this is getting. This strikes me as an incredibly dumb decision from a pr standpoint at the very least, and it’s the sort of thing that could lead to ramifications for the actually important parts of the Icelandic seafood industry if any countries decide to restrict seafood imports over the whaling (which has happened before in other circumstances)

not to continue shilling the based children’s book ive talked about either on this account or one of my other accounts that i lost the login for before, but Addicted to War talks about this (in addition to laying it out clearly that a literal first grader could understand it that the U.S. military is just three oil/fruit/whatever commodity companies in a trench coat)