From what I understand they organise the hunts when a pod of cetaceans is spotted off the coast. Rather than sending fishing fleets out, they corral them into a fjord and slaughter them on the beach.
In some ways this is better than fishing fleets, there is no bycatch and they aren't trawling or reducing stocks. But there is also an international ban on whaling, and they are part of the EU which also has a ban. In this case it was just that the pod was much larger than normally finds its way to the isles
In some ways this is better than fishing fleets, there is no bycatch and they aren't trawling or reducing stocks. But there is also an international ban on whaling, and they are part of the EU which also has a ban. In this case it was just that the pod was much larger than normally finds its way to the isles