An annual catch limit of 500 dolphins will be implemented after 1,423 dolphins were hunted and butchered last year.
The Faroe Islands is to limit its dolphin hunt after it was found an 'unusually' large number were killed last year.said in a statement on July 10.
The hunt limit comes following a government evaluation that found an"unusually large catch of 1,423" of white sided dolphinsThis particular slaughter is believed to be the largest single hunt of cetaceans—a group comprising whales, dolphins and porpoises—ever recorded worldwide. A photo shows rows of dead whales, killed in the Faroe Islands. A hunt limit of 500 a year will be implemented."It has been acknowledged that aspects of that catch were not satisfactory, in particular the unusually large number of dolphins killed. This made procedures difficult to manage and is unlikely to be a sustainable level of catch on a long-term annual basis," the statement read.
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