Ocean Sentry
A pod of 9 pilot whales was spotted off Hvalba yerterday morning and driven to the shore to be slaughtered by feroese locals. A few hours later, around 200 Atlantic white-sided dolphins suffered the same fate at Skálabotnur at the end of Skálafjørður on the Faroese island of Eysturoy.
During the hunt, pilot whales and dolphins swimming close to the islands during migration each year are herded towards the coast by a flotilla of motot boats into a designated bays where locals wade into into shallow waters and kill them using specially-designed spinal lance.
King of Denmark, of which Faroe Islands are a protectorate, is in violation of three conventions it has signed whereby it vowed to do everything within its capacity to protect pilot whales — the Bern Convention, Bonn Convention and ASCOBANS.
These two last grinds brings the number of marine mammals killed this summer to aproximately 1,529.
