But over the past three centuries, the Faroese have taken an average of 838 pilot whales and 75 dolphins each year, Fielding reported in a 2012 …

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More than 260,000 people have signed Blue Planet Society’s online petition calling for a ban on hunting dolphins and whales in Japan and the Faroe Islands. 252 long-finned pilot whales and 35 Atlantic white-sided dolphins were killed on just one day in the Faroe Islands Credit: Facebook/Sea Shepherd France