whaling and sealing though internationally controversial form a small part of norwegian fisheries box for this reason it resumed whaling in after a fiveyear break following the moratorium set by the international whaling commission iwc that year norway became the only state in the world to resume commercial whaling it had objected to and thus opted out of the moratorium the iucn red list categorises the northern minke whale the subspecies found in norway as of least concern though it is listed in cites appendix i threatened no commercial or scientific whaling of other species takes place and the whaling industry does not receive direct subsidies