What is the history of dolphin hunting?
The practice of dolphin drive hunting has a long history, dating back hundreds if not thousands of years. Originally, fishermen would surround a school of dolphins with a wide semicircle of boats, then drop stones into the water, driving them to shore. Kiribati, Peru, Taiwan and Hawaii used to hunt dolphins in this way, but dolphin hunting is now illegal in all four areas. Japan, the Solomon Islands and the Faroe Islands are the three locations where the practice continues today. In many respects, dolphin hunting methods haven’t changed, except that today’s hunters bang on metal rods to drive dolphins to shore.
