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Every year in the Danish protectorate of the Faroe Islands, an archipelago just 230 miles north-west of mainland Scotland, entire families of small cetaceans -- primarily long-finned pilot whales and Atlantic white-sided dolphins -- are massacred each year in drive hunts called ‘grindadráp’. When a pod is spotted, motor boats and jetskis are used to chase the cetaceans, sometimes for hours, "driving" them into one of the many shallow bays of the Faroe Islands, where locals on the beach use hooks to pull them ashore and kill them with spinal lances and knives.