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🚨2 Grinds have taken place at Hvalba & Bour in the Faroe Islands today. 🩸. 40 pilot whales were slaughtered in Hvalba and as many as 100 in Bour. This senseless murder has ripped much needed cetacean families from our ocean. 📸: Kasper Solberg

Commercial fishing nets trapped and drowned a porpoise that later washed up on an English beach. In a heartbreaking twist, a necropsy revealed that the porpoise was pregnant, carrying a near-term calf.

Video of seagrass devastation cut from David Attenborough's documentary 'Ocean!' 🌊 . The clip of bottom-trawling fishing boats ripping up seagrass was deemed ‘too harsh’ for the public. The public wants to know the truth! Not a sanitised version ✊.

Whales 🐳 still aren’t eating all the fish  🐟. The perception of whales as pests was a cultural conception, not an ecological reality. This simple notion is seriously flawed, as it overlooks several crucial components of marine ecosystems. Article: .

Bluefin tuna are returning in numbers to UK waters. 🐟. BUT instead of being cherished and carefully protected like other magnificent migratory wildlife, they are being hunted commercially to supply high-end restaurants with luxury meat. 🎣.

Orca seen grooming each other with kelp in a first for marine tool use!. The new behaviour was recorded using drone observation on a contained orca population of 73 individuals that live in the southern part of the Salish Sea.

There’s no need to kill cetaceans to feed the Faroese. 🇫🇴 It is pure national pride. ❌ . An outdated tradition viewed as a blood sport.🩸If the cruelty against sentient animals isn’t enough to stop the grindadráp, the toxicity of the meat should be. 🐋🐬.

#Supertrawlers are massive trawlers, up to 144m long, using huge nets up to 1km long to target pelagic fish. Capable of catching thousands of tonnes of fish per trip, with disgusting levels of #bycatch, these marine ecosystem destroyers must be stopped.

RT @HughHarrop: Sad news. The lone bull Orca that was seen here in Shetland a couple of days ago stranded yesterday evening in Yell Sound.….

Thousands of common dolphins 🐬 are being killed by fishing vessels in EU waters. 🇪🇺. This barbaric practice is dismissively called 'bycatch' by the fishing industry. Sign our petition & join 555,000 people calling for an end to this needless slaughter!.

Pay-to-release program for threatened sharks & rays reduced bycatch in Indonesia. 🇮🇩. 71% wedgefish & 4% hammerheads released alive, BUT some fishers intentionally caught target species to claim 💰.

Sign the petition to stop the import and sale of flying rings that cause pain, suffering & death to seals. These rings are potential toys for curious seals. A few moments of curiosity turn into a nightmare when they become entangled around their necks. 📝

Great news coming out of Iceland 🇮🇸 where it seems no whales will be slaughtered this summer. 🐋. However commercial whaling continues in Japan 🇯🇵 Norway 🇳🇴 and Greenland 🇬🇱 . We must protect whales, and that begins when we finally STOP THE HUNT.

Whales are making a remarkable comeback in Antarctica's waters without the threat of whaling. 🐋. However, Humans now threaten whales by removing their food source. Antarctic krill fishing has increased by 400% over the last 20 years. 🎣.

RT @DrTOMontgomery: #Ocean . One whale washed up on a beach - all over the news. Japan slaughtering over 400 whales - even endangered Sei….

Jaws helped spur a 🦈fishing frenzy – so how have the world’s sharks fared since the 1975 release?. Clue - They have been slaughtered at every opportunity 🎣❌.

RT @Unpop_Science: The US government is directing the killing of tens of thousands of endangered and legally protected sharks each year. O….

Scientists Reveal Fish Endure “Intense Pain” for Over 10 Minutes After Being Caught. Rainbow trout endure intense suffering when killed by common slaughter methods. A groundbreaking study uncovers the hidden pain of fish during this process.