More than 1,400 dolphins killed in Faroe Islands after ‘big mistake’ – By David Matthews (New York Daily News) / Sept 15 2021
After a massive online outcry, government officials in the Faroe Islands have described the hunting and killing of a massive pod of dolphins as a “big mistake.”
On Sunday night, 1,428 dolphins were killed near the Faroe Islands, a Danish territory located between Iceland and Norway. According to conservation group Sea Shepard Global, the hunters used jet-skis and small boats to corral the dolphins in shallow water and kill them.
Officials have since said the hunters mistakenly thought the pod was much smaller but also “somebody should have known better,” Olavur Sjurdarberg, chairman of the Faroese Whalers Association, told the BBC.
On Sunday night a super-pod of 1428 Atlantic White-Sided Dolphins was driven for many hours and for around 45 km by speed boats and jet-skis into the shallow water at Skálabotnur beach in the Danish Faroe Islands, where every single one of them was killed. https://t.co/uo2fAPhCDq
— Sea Shepherd (@seashepherd) September 14, 2021
