Islanders usually kill up to 1,000 sea mammals – chiefly pilot whales – annually, according to data kept by the Faeroe Islands. In 2020, that included only 35 white-sided dolphins.

Passengers aboard a cruise ship docked at the Faroe Islands witnessed the butchering of wild dolphins on Sunday.n Captain Paul Watson Foundation UK Grindadráp, or grind for short, occurs each ...

Photo: A Taste of Whale Vincent Kelner—writer-director of “A Taste of Whale,” a documentary examining the “grind,” Faroe Islanders’ ritual slaughter of pilot whales, but it’s an intricate film with a ...

Why do they keep getting away with this? In this doc film, the filmmakers head to the islands to find out. "It is the 'Grind' season again – Faroe Islanders' ritual slaughter of pilot whales.

The film looks at the centuries-old tradition of whale hunting in the Faroe Islands. Every year, nearly 1,000 pilot whales are hunted, beached and killed by knife in the fjords.

Provocative as it may be at first glance, “A Taste of Whale,” in theaters and on demand, offers a refreshingly multidimensional take on the controversy around whale hunting in the Faroe ...