1.   Failure to lift the ban prompted Iceland to withdraw formally from the Commission, and Norway to announce a unilateral resumption of commercial hunting.

2.   And they say their plans to take five gray whales annually do not currently include commercial hunting.

3.   But he, too, urged caution about the idea that commercial hunting was unintentionally letting the killers thrive.

4.   Some of the things being thrown about are baiting, use of electronic calls, commercial hunting and even mass killings on the breeding grounds.

5.   Although commercial hunting is banned, nations still take whales for scientific research, and the organization claims much of that is a cover for commercial whaling.

6.   Asmundsson announced last week that Iceland intends to resume commercial hunting despite the ban.

7.   Commercial hunting threatens endangered animals such as deer, tigers, birds and turtles, he said.

8.   Either way, whales would be safe from all commercial hunting.

9.   Fisheries Minister Jan Henry T. Olsen said ban on commercial hunting and the clubs would remain in affect this year.

10.   Fisheries Minister Jan Henry T. Olsen said the ban on commercial hunting and the use of clubs would remain in affect this year.