For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
While Japan was the biggest whale hunting nation between 1986 and 1990, it was overtaken by Norway in the most recent years.
Norway almost quadrupled the numbers of whales caught from the period 1986-1990 to 2012-2016, both Greenland and Iceland had a 50 per cent increase until today.
