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Traditionally Faroe fishermen lure dolphins into shallow water to kill them for their meat and blubber.

A local activist published gruesome video footage of Sunday’s slaughter of 1,428 white-sided dolphins.

Animal rights group calls for “much tighter restrictions” around such hunts.

Iceland and Faroe Islands set out mackerel quotas ANNONCER Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries Kristján Thór Júlíusson has signed off legislation governing mackerel fishing in Icelandic and NEAFC waters for this year. For the 2021 mackerel fishery, Iceland has set a 140,627 tonne quota, a figure that is equivalent to 16.50% of this year’s total allowable catch. Iceland’s decision has already been declared to NEAFC. Faroese fisheries minister Jacob Vestergaard, in consultation with the Parliamentary foreign affairs committee, has set the 2021 Faroese mackerel quota at 167.048 tonnes, equ...

Link Copied The Northeast Atlantic mackerel is a small fish with grey or greenish-blue scales and tigerlike black stripes from mouth to tail. Lacking a swim bladder—the gas-filled organ that helps most fish move up and down in the water—the mackerel would sink and die if it ever stopped. So it is always on the move, looking for plankton, crustaceans, and other small fish. It travels in shoals that can be more than 100 feet deep and 600 feet wide, and sometimes, when this great nomadic army catches a glimmer of light, it can resemble an underwater version of the northern lights.