Dolphin drive hunting, also called dolphin drive fishing, is a method of hunting dolphins and occasionally other small cetaceans by driving them together with boats, usually into a bay or onto a beach. Their escape is prevented by closing off the route to …

Sep 9, 2021 · The Japanese town of Taiji’s controversial dolphin hunt is now in its ninth day, and fishermen have caught at least seven bottlenose dolphins so far in a hunting season expected to last until...

Aug 17, 2022 · Scientists trying to understand the hunting behaviors of bottlenose dolphins have come up with a unique solution: fit them with video cameras. The result is the most remarkable insight into the...

Dolphins are hunted in Malaita in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, mainly for their meat and teeth, and also sometimes for live capture for dolphinariums. Dolphin drive hunting is practised by coastal communities around the world; the animals are herded together with boats and then into a bay or onto a beach.

1 day ago · Dolphin hunting methods are often brutal and indiscriminate. Some common techniques include: Drive Hunting: As practiced in Taiji, Japan, dolphins are herded into shallow bays, where they are either slaughtered or selected for live capture. This method is notoriously traumatic and often results in the death of entire families of dolphins.

Drive hunting sees dolphins and whales cruelly driven onto beaches or into bays, with boats or nets blocking off all chance of escape back to the open sea. Several countries still participate in this practice, killing the trapped cetaceans for food, or selling them live to marine parks and dolphinariums around the world.

Against a global backdrop of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Taiji, Japan’s notorious dolphin drive hunts have resumed. On September 1, on the first day of the drive season, hunters located a small pod of bottlenose dolphins – the species most often taken captive, and displayed in aquariums and marine parks worldwide.

2 days ago · The hunting of dolphins raises serious ethical and environmental concerns. The inhumane treatment of dolphins during drive hunts and other hunting methods is a significant point of criticism. Dolphins are intelligent and social creatures, and their suffering during these hunts has led to widespread international condemnation.

Thousands of dolphins and small whales are being killed in cruel hunts every year. Your support will help WDC to stop these needless deaths. Concern however is not only limited to the small whales and dolphins themselves but also to an emerging human health issue as a result of the consumption of whale and dolphin meat.

Aug 17, 2022 · Scientists trying to understand the hunting behaviors of bottlenose dolphins have come up with a unique solution: fit them with video cameras. The result is the most remarkable insight into the...