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	Whaling on the Faroe Islands - From The Ark Number 196 - Spring 2004 - A Publication of Catholic Concern for Animals - ...
		The Faroes are a group of 18 volcanic islands lying midway between Scotland and Iceland.
		As the whales approach the area, the boatmen generate a great deal of noise and begin driving the whales who, caught up in their own momentum, beach themselves.
		The blubber and whale meat are shared freely amongst the participants and homes in the area.
	www.all-creatures.org /ca/ark-196-whaling.html (1910 words)

	Whaling in the Faroe Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Whole families of whales - including pregnant mothers, lactating females, youngsters and foetuses - are butchered by the islanders.
		The whales die slow deaths, screaming in agony.
		The exhausted, terrified and confused whales are eventually driven into the shallows.
	www.faroes.org (207 words)

	Whaling Information
		Since its establishment in 1992, the Faroe Islands have been a Party to the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission NAMMCO, a regional intergovernmental body for the conservation, management and study of marine mammals in the North Atlantic, the other Parties to which are Norway, Iceland and Greenland.
		This conclusion was based on advice provided by the Scientific Committee of NAMMCO in response to requests from the NAMMCO Council for an assessment of the status of the pilot whale population in the North Atlantic and whether the number of pilot whales taken annually in the Faroe Islands is consistent with sustainable utilisation.
		The Faroe Islands have been providing information on pilot whaling to members of the International Whaling Commission IWC for many years, through their representation under the Kingdom of Denmark in this body, despite the fact that the IWC is not recognised as the competent body to manage small whales, such as pilot whales.
	www.whaling.fo /international.htm (473 words)

	Pilot Whaling in the Faroe Islands
		Pilot whaling regulations divide the Faroes into 9 whaling districts with a total of 22 authorized whaling bays all of which meet the demands made on efficient stranding conditions for the whales.
		The whale is killed with a sharp knife cutting down to the spinal chord and severing the major arteries leading to the whale’s brain.
		The pilot whales found in the north-east Atlantic are of the long-finned species (Globicephala melas), and are known to the Faroese as grindahvalur.
	www.highnorth.no /Library/Hunts/Faroe_Islands/pi-wh-in.htm (1117 words)

	Whaling districts in the Faroe Islands - Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal
		The hunting of pilot whales is an important traditional practice in the Faroe Islands.
		Catches of whales are shared largely without the exchange of money among the participants in a hunt and residents of the local district where they are landed.
		The Ministry of Fisheries of the Faroe Islands is responsible for the administration of whaling regulations and for coordinating Faroese participation in international scientific conservation bodies which deal with the management of whale stocks.
	maps.grida.no /go/graphic/whaling_districts_in_the_faroe_islands (320 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Although the Islands are a protectorate of Denmark, they have their own Government and regulations governing the pilot whale hunt or "grind" as it is known.
		Whale meat and public health In a report in 1998, the Faroes Health Authority has recommended that consumption of whale meat is limited to no more than twice a month.
		Campaign Whale objectives Campaign Whale is opposed to the slaughter of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands believing that it is unacceptably cruel, is no longer an important food source for the population and constitutes an unnecessary threat to the species, the size and status of which is unknown.
	home.clara.net /campaign-whale/issues/faroe.txt (673 words)

	World Council of Whalers - The United Voice of Whaling Peoples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Faroese pilot whale drive fishery is a communal activity; schools of pilot whales (abundant in the N. Atlantic and currently estimated at 778,000 whales) are herded into one of 22 bays authorized for whale beaching.
		As the community's boats slowly and gently direct the school of whales towards shore, community members (men, women and children; most are given time off from work whenever a drive occurs) wait for the whales to beach.
		Pilot whaling is no more or less important than the other aspects of the complex subsistence of Faroese people; it is, however, essential to the 47,000 people living on these North Atlantic islands.
	www.worldcouncilofwhalers.com /whaling_around_the_world/faroe_islands.htm (712 words)

	WHALING, HUNTING ENDAGERED WHALES FOR FOOD WITH HARPOONS \| THE MISSING WHALE
		Though the study indicated that whale populations were growing, in 1993 the United States refused to agree to a resumption of commercial whaling, and the IWC agreed.
		Whaling on a large scale was first organized at Spitsbergen at the beginning of the 17th cent., largely by the Dutch who, with the Basques, apparently developed methods of flensing and boiling.
		Japan's scientific whaling program has remained controversial, with conservation groups and anti-whaling countries such as the US and Australia maintaining that the number of animals killed is much greater than demanded by scientific purposes, and that the real reason for the scientific kills is to provide whale meat for Japanese restaurants and supermarkets.
	www.solarnavigator.net /whaling.htm (6339 words)

	International Network for Whaling Research - INWR Digest #22
		The 2001 whaling season resulted in the quota of 549 minke whales being landed, despite a slow start to the season in May due to poor weather conditions.
		The quota was distributed among five whaling areas in the North Sea, the Barents Sea and the Greenland Sea.
		The West Nordic Council is a joint parliamentary organisation of Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
	www.ualberta.ca /~inwr/DIGEST/digest22.html (2352 words)

	Marine Mammal Hunts
		Whales and Whaling in the Faroe Islands, published by the Faroe Island Department of Fisheries, 1993
		The Minke Whale Stock in the Northeast Atlantic: Error in the Stock Estimate - New Estimate to be Submitted in Spring 1996.
		Makah Harpoons prod a Whale of a Dilemma.
	www.highnorth.no /Library/Hunts/cont-hun.htm (603 words)

	International Network for Whaling Research - Page Title
		The majority of Icelanders favour a resumption of whaling, with concerns being expressed that the expanding populations of whales in the North Atlantic represent a threat to the nation's fisheries.
		The Faroe Islands consists of 18 mountainous islands, situated between Scotland and Iceland, first settled in 1100 AD by the Norse ancestors of the present population that today numbers 47,000.
		For the whaling companies and their respective governments, the likelihood of whaling becoming unprofitable as a result of lower quotas appeared far more certain, and was of much greater concern, than the risk of depleting the Antarctic stocks, due to the inability of scientists to clearly demonstrate that this was indeed happening.
	www.ualberta.ca /~inwr/DIGEST/digest25.html (2408 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Iceland to begin whalemeat trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Iceland's whaling commissioner told the BBC that up to two tonnes of minke whalemeat would be exported to the Faroe Islands.
		The Danish government says it continues to press the Faroes to implement Cites legislation; in the meantime, environmental groups disagree with the Faroes exemption and are looking at the possibilities of a legal challenge.
		Faroe Islanders have a tradition of catching and eating whales, and say that the 1986 global moratorium on commercial hunting should by now have been lifted - which anti-whaling nations and environmental groups want to prevent at all costs.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/5319734.stm (803 words)

	Løgmansskrivstovan
		The language of the Faroe Islands, Faroese, is a west Nordic language, which derives from the language of the Norsemen who settled the islands 1200 years ago.
		The Faroe Islands have chosen not to be a part of Denmark’s membership of the European Union.
		The Faroes negotiate their own trade and fisheries agreements with the EU and other countries, in consultation and cooperation with the Danish foreign ministry, and participate either independently or together with Greenland (Denmark in respect of the Faroe Islands and Greenland) in a range of regional fisheries management bodies.
	www.tinganes.fo /?f=A253C3AC-6CEB-4ED0-A0AA-7076A8B93E1B (303 words)

	Whaling Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		any different species of whales and dolphins occur in the waters around the Faroe Islands.
		Of these, the small and abundant pilot whales are taken in the Faroe Islands for their meat and blubber in a whale hunt which is organised on the community level and regulated by national legislation.
		or an island nation overwhelmingly dependent on what the sea can provide, the conservation and management of living marine resources and the protection of the marine environment from pollution are of vital importance to the Faroe Islands.
	www.whaling.fo (156 words)

	APE - Animals, People and the Environment: Press Release for Tim O'Brien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jennifer has studied, investigated and documented pilot whaling in the Faroe Islands since 1984, resulting in enormous pressure being placed on the Faroese Government to reduce the suffering inflicted on the whales, as a step towards phasing out the hunt.
		Having watched whales being killed and actively participated in the IWC's discussions on the methods used to kill whales, over the years Jennifer has developed a unique expertise on the ways that whales, dolphins and porpoises are slaughtered.
		She continues to campaign for the cruelty of whaling to be given much greater consideration in the debate over the exploitation of whales.
	www.ivu.org /ape/releases/relJan02.htm (328 words)

	Faroe Islands News - Page 2
		Turkish Daily News Fenerbahce are well placed in their second leg match against B36 Torshavn of the Faroe Islands in the second round preliminaries of the Champions League this evening; indeed, the Yellow...
		Turkish Daily News Fenerbahce did not find it too difficult to beat their Faroe Islands opponents B36 Torshavn in the first leg of the second round of preliminaries for Champions League qualification by scoring...
		Held at Torshavn, Faroe Islands, the smallest capital in the world Olavsoka, or Olsok, on July 29 is the national holiday of the Faroe Islands, and today is its eve, featuring a cavalcade and boat races.
	www.topix.net /world/faroe-islands/page2 (911 words)

	Hoppa - Animals in the Nordic Countries
		Faroe Islands, Whales Many different species of whales and dolphins occur in the waters around the Faroe Islands.
		Of these, the small and abundant pilot whales are taken in the Faroe Islands for their meat and blubber.
		Faroe Islands, Fishery, Oceans, Sea Life Fiskirannsóknarstovan hevur til endamáls at gera kanningar av føroyskum havumhvørvi og tí livandi tilfeingi, har er, og at ráðgeva og kunna landsins myndugleikum og almenningi um hesi viðurskifti.
	hoppa.com /eu/nor/Animals (332 words)

	ACS - American Cetacean Society
		The American Cetacean Society, the oldest whale and dolphin conservation society in the world, urges you to stop the distribution by Rainbow Seafoods of fish from the Faroe Islands, the North Atlantic principality of Denmark.
		Because massive butchery is practiced in the Faroes in year-around "drive hunts" in which entire families of pilot whales, pregnant females and babies included, as well as other types of dolphins, are killed indiscriminately, it is important for corporations to disassociate themselves from such irresponsible and immoral killings.
		The inhabitants of the Faroe Islands have no subsistence need for whale meat, and much of the flesh is left to rot and dumped; it cannot be exported, as it is polluted with heavy metals and other toxins and therefore cannot meet EU heath standards for human food.
	www.acsonline.org /issues/whaling/Ltr0202FaroeIslandsWhaleSlaughter.html (413 words)

	Faroe Islands - Faroes Travel and Tourist Information
		The landscape consists mostly of grass and rock outcroppings, and villages are connected by narrow roads (often one lane with pullovers for passing) where you'll need to watch for unattended grazing sheep if you're touring by car, motorcycle, or bike.
		The populated islands are connected by ferries, and frequent buses make it easy to get around without a car.
		The Faroes' own airline has flights from Copenhagen to Vágar International Airport throughout the year and from Billund, Denmark (home of Legoland) during the summer.
	europeforvisitors.com /europe/planner/blp_countries_faroe_islands.htm (470 words)

	ACS - American Cetacean Society
		The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is the only regulatory body with the authority to manage the world's whale stocks.
		Much is unknown about whales and their habitat, yet they have become a symbol of all life in the oceans.
		One of the arguments whaling countries use to justify their practices is a claim that more cetaceans are indirectly killed by the fishing fleets of 'non-whaling' countries, such as the US, than are directly targeted by whalers.
	www.acsonline.org /issues/whaling/index.html (840 words)

	Faroe Islands
		The whales caught by the Faroese are not for commercial export, but rather for the traditional uses of their community.
		The Faroe Islands do not want to be a tourist attraction, but they are making sure that those who do come feel welcome.
		The Faroe Islands heavily trade marine animals as this is the cornerstone of their economy.
	darwin.bio.uci.edu /~sustain/h90/Faroes.htm (640 words)

	Faroe Islands News
		Faroe Islands News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		By Alister Doyle, Reuters OSLO - Iceland is resuming whale meat exports after a gap of more than 15 years with sales to the Faroe Islands despite objections from environmentalists that the shipments undermine a...
		Scotland thrashed the Faroe Islands 6-0 at Celtic Park to get their European Championship campaign off to the perfect start.
	www.topix.net /world/faroe-islands?scoring=r (613 words)

	Faroe Islands Faroes Tourism Events Photos Weather Whales
		The Faroese are touchy on the subject of whaling.
		Citizens kill pilot whales with knives during traditional hunts along the shoreline, with the meat being distributed among members of the community.
		This page has links to a dozen articles on Faroese whaling, including a piece titled "Hung Verdict" from London's Daily Telegraph that sadly mentions today's high levels of mercury, insecticides, and pesticides in pilot whales.
	europeforvisitors.com /europe/articles/faroe_islands6.htm (437 words)

	Lopra / Faroe Islands / faroeislands.dk
		That was a kind of slaughterhouse or factory that bought whales from the whaling-ships.
		Whaling was an important source of revenue in first half of the 20th century.
		The whales were harpooned in the sea around the islands and then towed to the whaling-stations of which there were a few of in the Faroe Islands.
	www.faroeislands.dk /pages/LopraIndex.htm (212 words)

	World Council of Whalers - The United Voice of Whaling Peoples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was set up under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling which was signed in Washington DC on 2 December 1946.
		The purpose of the Convention is to provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry.
		After the moratorium on commercial whaling adopted by the IWC came into effect, JWA disbanded in July 1988, and re-formed in October 1988 as a private organization with the aim of resumption of whaling.
	www.worldcouncilofwhalers.com /links.htm (637 words)

	US softens stance on Norwegian whaling: Newsletter 8, 97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Although Norway took part in a voluntary moratorium on whaling, it resumed hunting a few years ago, when maritime scientists evaluated the population of minke whales in the North Atlantic, and found it to be large and growing.
		Although Norway continues to hold a strict moratorium on pelagic whaling, it has continually maintained that the population of minke whales could sustain a continuation of the traditional hunt.
		Prior to the latest IWC meeting in Monaco in October, the United States Whaling Commissioner James Baker let it be known in a letter to Norwegian authorities that Washington has changed its stance on the issue.
	www.norden.org /top/9708/08_97e.htm (356 words)

	Faroe Islands Tourism: Flights, Hotels, Cruises, and Attractions - Associated Content
		Whaling, fishing, and birdwatching attract those with an interest in the outdors.
		As an autonomous region of Denmark, the 50,000 citizens of the Faroe Islands enjoy stability despite their relative isolation and rural orientation.
		The Faroe Islands have only one airport at their disposal, Vagar Airport – not far from the capital of Torshavn.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/18016/faroe_islands_tourism_flights_hotels.html (448 words)

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