Last year 1,423 were killed in one day! Why would Denmark hunt whales with a limit of 500 in 2022?

The annual Danish Faroe Islands whale hunt festival is here again. This year, however, the government of Denmark's Faroe Islands announced a new initiative to control the killing of whales.

In fact, if you look at it from different angles, it's controversial. For a lot of people -- whether it's killing more or less, we shouldn't, because it's going to have an impact on the earth's ecosystem. As a result, many countries around the world are also petitioning to abolish the tradition of whale hunting in Denmark's Faroe Islands. It's like restricting Japan from hunting whales, but as it turns out, it's very difficult. Here's a look at the new instructions for 2022.

Denmark has a quota to kill whales

According to a report published by Danish 2 television, there has been widespread outrage since a large-scale whale hunt in 2021 in Denmark's Faroe Islands -- 1,423 whales were killed in one day. As a result, Denmark has adopted a new policy for the next whale hunt. According to a new statement issued by Denmark's Faroe Islands, a quota of 500 white-edge dolphins per year for 2022 and 2023 has been announced. The white-edge dolphins are not a single species as a whole.

The annual "Grindadrap" hunt in Denmark involves fishermen rounding up dolphins and pilot whales in a semicircle, so it's not a single species.

After rounding them up, fishermen herded them into the shallow waters of the bay, forcing them to become stranded. The creatures are then slaughtered by the fishermen.

Whale hunters use harpoons or even power tools to kill them on the spot, and the sea animals' blood stains the shoreline red. Even the waters of Whale Bay are stained red with the blood of whales and dolphins.

After killing more than 1,400 sea creatures last year, as many of you will have seen, the entire bay is blood-red. So, even with a cap and cull in 2022, this is certainly going to be the case, and many people will probably shed tears of indignation again. So, technically, the Danish whale hunt is not limited to just one species. It probably kills almost anything that is rounded up, and we've seen dolphins, pilot whales, and so on.

After Denmark killed thousands of creatures in a single day in 2021, outsiders, environmental groups and others, wanted the mission to stop.

Many say the unusually high number of dolphins killed in Denmark's Grindadrap hunt has led to a shortage of dolphins in the area that, if sustained, is unlikely to become sustainable in the long term. And according to its projections for living things.

It has been made clear that an annual quota of about 825 dolphins is needed to sustain the spread and stabilize the population in the future, but in 2021, the kill is already over the limit. That's why nearly 1.3 million people around the world have signed a petition asking the government of the Danish autonomous Territory of the Faroe Islands to abolish their tradition of hunting sea animals. Danish Grindadrap hunts are banned. But that is clearly not going to happen in 2022.

According to a statement released by the Danish Faroe Islands in 2022, the region will not abolish its tradition of killing Marine animals. As a result, nearly 1.3 million petitions to stop whaling have been rejected. It should be noted that Denmark's Faroe Islands are the last European territory where hunting of Marine mammals is permitted. Except for Denmark, Japan is the world's biggest whale hunter.

Japan, which had also been asked to stop whaling, withdrew from the IWC in 2018 and will resume commercial whaling in 2019. So Japan will hunt whales in 2022. However, whether it is Japan or Denmark, such hunting is not a good thing for the Marine ecosystem, it will bring damage, ecological crisis and so on.

What are the effects of killing Marine life, and why does Denmark kill whales?

What are the effects of killing Marine life?

In fact, no matter the other life on earth, or Marine life is the same, is an essential part of the maintenance of the ecosystem. The decline of any kind of living thing can harm the earth's ecosystem.

And, in 2022, science published a paper suggesting that if we can quickly reverse emissions as climate change warms the oceans, we're still at risk of losing about 5 percent of Marine species.

For every 2 degrees Celsius rise in temperature, there is a 10 percent loss. In this case, Marine life itself is declining, and if humans continue to hunt and kill Marine life on a large scale, the numbers will decrease even further. Therefore, the protection of Marine life is the most important.

At the same time, we should know that after affecting Marine species, terrestrial species will also be affected, because all organisms have the characteristics of "food chain", so as long as one of the extinction of species, it may affect the survival of other organisms, which is the importance of Marine conservation. So why does Denmark kill whales?

According to Denmark, the faroe Islands' tradition of hunting sea animals is a "very old and socially responsible form of resource sharing" that, while seemingly cruel, is essentially no different from slaughtering pigs and cows in a slaughterhouse, which is how the Faroe Islanders get their meat.

So, under no circumstances will it be abolished, and it calls the killing of pilot whales and white-sided dolphins by local residents "a sustainable use of Marine resources".

So, that's why they kill whales, it's really "tradition + Marine resource acquisition". Denmark's Faroe Islands, located in the north Of the Atlantic Ocean, is a region with very scarce resources, and the food resources are basically Marine resources. So killing whales is no more important to them than eating fish or shrimp.

So, to deny them the chance to kill whales would basically be to "kill" them, and they would certainly object. But according to data released in 2021, many Faroe Islanders consider eating whale meat to be part of their culture of life, and with only about 53,000 inhabitants, it's unlikely they could afford that much.

So the hope is to rationalise the killing, but Denmark's killing of whales does not seem to have changed much, although last year it was probably one too many. So, there's a lot of dissatisfaction around the world, and if we do this again in 2022, it's going to be a serious problem, and so maybe the local population sees this and reduces the amount of Marine life being killed.