If a resident of the Faroes chooses to hold a maroon Danish passport, they cannot also have the green Faroese passport. This makes them Danish citizens although they can remain Faroese residents. A Faroese resident cannot work in Europe unless they maintain an address in Denmark although this is relatively simple to do. This means that people who can legally travel freely and work in Europe and who participate in the Grind may be in violation of European Union law.
There are also no restrictions for Danish citizens to live and work in the Faroes. The Faroese, although considering themselves independent, do not have control over the administration of justice including the courts of law, the police, the prison and probation services. Nor do they have control over the law of legal capacity, family law and succession law.
They also do not have control over border controls, financial regulation and supervision. And they have no control over aviation. Sea Shepherd has been confronting these issues for years.
And it has been raising awareness for years. But they concern all of us. That documentary, however, has had the desired effects. Many people have written to us, saying that they have immediately decided not to eat fish anymore. The seas are emptying. Over and over again. More and more». Intensive fishing, in fact, is having a devastating impact on the marine ecosystem. Sharks, rays and so on. We no longer have control over what is happening in Asia. And there are almost no fish left.
So many of the intensive fishing vessels are European». Given the vastness of the seas and oceans, controls are rare. Law enforcement actions, as a result, are not very effective. It had a regular license to fish for tuna, but there was a secret factory on board to produce shark oil. Those who, in other words, live off what the sea gives them. Many Senegalese have been forced to emigrate for this very reason. A glimmer of hope, however, would appear to be there.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently said that some endangered tuna species are returning to repopulating the seas. The problem, I repeat, is very serious. More and more species of fish and more and more species of whales are facing extinction».
The conclusion is both bitter and sweet. On an emotional level, yes, such slaughters hurt and constitute a defeat. But, well, among young people there is always more sensitivity towards these issues.
There is hope. There has to be. It always does. At the moment, it is clear that we are not in a good situation. But in our own small way, we have conquered a lot: in Liberia, for example, local fishermen have returned to fishing.
And there are more fish than before. We are in a critical situation, and yet the oceans can recover easily and quickly. The next-largest catches were in , in , and in , Mr Mikkelsen said. Only when the killing process started did they find out the true size of the pod, he said. Even so, according to Mr Sjurdarberg, the catch was approved by the local authorities and no laws were broken. Such hunts are regulated in the Faroe Islands. They are non-commercial and are organised on a community level, often spontaneously when someone spots a pod of the mammals.
To take part, hunters must have an official training certificate that qualifies them to kill the animals. He visited Skalabotnur beach to speak to locals on Monday. Still, he defended the hunt, which he said was "humane" if done in the right way. That involves a specially designed lance, which is used to cut the spinal cord of the whale or dolphin before the neck is cut. Using this method, it should take "less than a second to kill a whale", Mr Skaale said.
Campaign group Sea Shepherd has disputed this , arguing that "the killing of the dolphins and pilot whales is rarely as quick as Faroese government" makes out. Surveys suggest that most people are opposed to the mass slaughter of dolphins in the Faroe Islands. On Sunday, the national reaction was "one of bewilderment and shock because of the extraordinarily big number", said Trondur Olsen, a journalist for Faroese public broadcaster Kringvarp Foroya.
The polls provide a snapshot of public opinion towards the killing of sea mammals. Criticism of the Faroese hunt has ebbed and flowed over the years. The hunt is brought to wider attention from time to time, as it was by the popular Seaspiracy documentary on Netflix earlier this year. This time, though, locals say the reaction - especially within the whaling community - has been unusually damning.
My suspicion is that people are bracing themselves for a big backlash," Olsen said.
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