Whaling nations set for majority

I'm tempted to make a Star Trek IV reference - but I'll refrain - so you pro-whaling nations want to hunt and kill whales by whatever means you choose for profit - but don't actually want to eat them (and don't tell me there is a viable market for oils when so many other things are cheaper and simpler to make than by catching and extracting whale fat...) - If the prime ministers of Japan and Norway will sit down and eat an entire whale on TV, I'd consider letting this pass...

Though it is unlikely to return to full-scale commercial whaling, a simple majority would be enough to end IWC work on issues such as welfare and killing methods, whale-watching and anything concerning small cetaceans such as dolphins.

Pro-whaling nations insist that a limited return to commercial hunting is possible; stocks of some species are high enough, they maintain, charging that the IWC has become an organisation dedicated to preventing whaling, contrary to its purpose.

Yet...

"None of the pro-whaling nations have markets for the meat; young Japanese, Icelanders and Norwegians don't eat it, consumption is falling."