The High North Alliance team at IWC 

For more information, interviews and or assistance, our contact details in Shimonoseki, Japan (15 to 28 May):

Rune Frøvik, Secretary
rune@highnorth.no
Mobile phone: +81 (0) 90 6250 2799
Phone Shimonoseki Tokyu Inn: + 81 832 33 0109
Fax Shimonoseki Tokyu Inn: +81 832 23 0285

Permanent contact details:  
High North Alliance  
P.O. Box 123  
N-8398 Reine i Lofoten
Norway  
Tel +47 76 09 24 14  
Fax +47 76 09 24 50  
hna@highnorth.no 
www.highnorth.no 

How to contact other experts:  
For more information and interviews on North Atlantic whaling issues, you may wish to contact the experts listed below. The High North Alliance can assist with getting you in touch with them. 
They can all be reached at:
Phone Washington Hotel Plaza: +81 832 61 0410
Fax Washington Hotel Plaza: +81 832 61 0430

NORWAY:
Ole Mindor Myklebust
Mr Myklebust is a minke whale hunter and fisherman. He owns a combined whaling and fishing boat together with his brother. Mr Myklebust’s company has several tonnes of minke whale products in storage that they wish to export to Iceland and Japan.

Ambassador Odd Gunnar Skagestad  
Ambassador Skagestad is with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and he is Norway's Commissioner to the IWC.

Professor Lars Walløe  
Scientific advisor to the Government of Norway on marine mammal issues; such as abundance estimates, minke whale quota, DNA register, pollution/contaminants, etc. Head of the Norwegian delegation to the Scientific Committee of the IWC.

Professor Egil Ole Øen
Expert on whale hunting methods. He has developed the penthrite grenade used in the Norwegian minke whale hunt, the Greenlandic fin and minke whale hunts, and it is also tried in Japan’s scientific whaling program. In these countries, as well as in Alaska, Professor Øen has been involved in improving hunting methods, refining hunting gears, workshops, etc.

ICELAND:
Kristjan Loftsson  
Mr Loftsson is the manager of the whaling company "Hvalur", which owns Iceland's whaling station and four whale catcher boats. Since 1989, the catcher boats have not been used. 

Stefan Ausmundsson  
Mr Asmundsson is Iceland's Commissioner to the IWC. 

THE FAROE ISLANDS:
Kate Sanderson  
Mrs Sanderson is employed at the Foreign Office of the Faroese Prime Minister. She was formerly the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO). 

GREENLAND:  
Amalie Jessen  
Mrs Jessen is with the Fisheries Directorate in Greenland. She is also the chair of the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO).