1.   Those opposed to whaling focus on its inherent cruelty, the non-essential nature of whale products, and the danger of over-exploitation.

2.   Anthropologists and archaeologists say it is clear that the Makah have always traded whale products with other tribes in the Northwest.

3.   Despite their self-assuredness, Norway and Japan have complied until now with a U.N.-administered treaty forbidding the import or export of any whale product.

4.   Such exports would represent the first international trade in whale products in more than a decade.

5.   APTV coverage includes a look at the Japanese whaling fleet and the importance of whale products in Japanese cuisine.

6.   Australian officials say the need for whale products no longer exists because alternatives have become cheaper and easier to produce.

7.   Because export of whale products is banned, all the meat is sold in Norway.

8.   Bowhead whales were killed by the thousands during the heyday of commercial whaling, but the industry fizzled as whale products lost value.

9.   Conservation Minister Denis Marshall said it was illegal to import whale products into New Zealand without documentation issued under the act.

10.   Fiji is expected to insist on the right to continue what it calls traditional use of whale products.