"The Dolphin Massacre"

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The Faroe Islands government has defended the killing of more than 1,400 dolphins in a single day during a traditional hunt.

Despite the impact of this massacre, which is unusual in its size, even in this Scandinavian archipelago.

A spokesperson for the Torshavn government said: "There is no doubt that whaling in the Faroe Islands is a dramatic sight for people unfamiliar with hunting and the slaughter of mammals.

But these fishing operations are well regulated and fully legal.”

This fishing tradition, inherited in the Danish Faroe Islands in the North Sea, is based on the encirclement of small whales by ships at a water bay, after which they fall into the hands of fishermen who remain on land where they are killed with knives.