Why do norway hunt whales

3. Norway Since , this whaling country still hunts more than the quota allowed by the IWC. It has not adhered to the commercial whale hunting agreement. 29 thg 9, Norwegian whalers have hunted at least minke whales in despite growing calls to end it. The number of minke whales killed by. Part of the horror of this whale slaughter was the fact that most whales did not die instantly. Harpooning, a method used to kill whales, does not always kill.