I'm afraid I don't know enough about the ecology of whales around Iceland to pronounce in favour or not, but until we stop over-fishing and various other questionable hunting/farming practices (not to mention the killing of animals for sport as opposed to for food or medicine), and/or it can be demonstrated that they are killing species that are genuinely endangered (despite their protestations to the contrary), then I think they are entitled to do what they want with the whales in their waters.

Did you know that 1/3 of the cod fished in the entire WORLD is eaten in the UK despite the fact that we *know* that the stocks are in a dire state?

And then there's all the other wildlife damaged by our fishing and farming methods.