The sea turns red with blood as fishermen slaughter dozens of whales for their meat as part of a century-old tradition.
The animals lay lifeless on the shore after being sliced to death and dragged out of the water by men using rope and hooks.
Villagers gathered yesterday to watch the hunt in Torshavn, the capital of the remote
Faroe Islands, which was first introduced when The Faroese settled there over a century ago.
The pilot whale meat and blubber is consumed as food and can be boiled and served as steak.
The animals had been passing the shores of the Danish territory during their migration
before fishermen surrounded the mammals in boats and dinghies and herded them towards the beach.
Around 100,000 pilot whales swim close to the Faroe Islands, located in the North Atlantic
between Norway and Iceland and comprising of 18 tiny islands, each year.
The Faroese hunt on average 800 annually.
The Blue Planet Society wrote in a statement: "Around 130-150 pilot whales and
10-20 white-sided dolphins were brutally and cruelly slaughtered in the Faroe Islands today.
"Approximately 500 cetaceans have now been killed 'for food' in these islands since the beginning of 2019.
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