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 Around 950 long finned Pilot Whales (Globicephala melaena) are killed annually on the Danish island of Faroe. The hunts are conducted at the place called "grindadráp", which translates literally as 'grind', locally as 'pilot whale kill'. The hunters first surround the pilot whales with a wide semicircle of boats. The boats then drive the pilot whales slowly into a bay to be slaughtered on the beaches by hand.
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 Ignoring both the CITES treaty and the International Whaling Commission, exports of Fin Whale meat hunted by both Iceland and Norway have passed Customs and quality checks in Japan in the desperate attempt to develop the taste for the meat in Japan.
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 Occurring annually from September to April, the dolphin hunts are regulated by the Japanese government and conducted by groups of fishermen who herd in ten's of thousands of dolphins and small cetaceans into shallow bays.
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 Every year Japan conducts Antarctic whaling, exploiting a IWC loophole that allows for so-called ‘scientific whaling’. Japan intends to slaughter an even larger number of whales in 2008 and 2009. Including the Endangered Fin whale and next year Humpbacks. Their current quota consists of 950 Minke and 50 Endangered Fin whales.
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