The annual hunt on juvenile fulmars, The Faroe Islands, August 2020. - Every year, in the end of August, there's a 14 day hunting season on the juvenile fulmars on the Faroe Islands.
The young birds, who hatched from eggs laid in May, has just made their very first flight from the nests and as it is their first flight where they are only about to learn how to fly, they quickly get really tired and take many rests on the sea, where fishermen then simply scoop them up with nets and then break their necks.
They are considered a delicacy on the islands, as they are so young and fat and they are very easy money for the fishermen.
A fisherman told me, that half of the 20,000 young fulmars are hunted and killed every year in this 14 day hunting season, other sources told me that the number is far more likely to be above 100,000 who are killed.

The annual hunt on juvenile fulmars, The Faroe Islands, August 2020.

Every year, in the end of August, there's a 14 day hunting season on the juvenile fulmars on the Faroe Islands.
The young birds, who hatched from eggs laid in May, has just made their very first flight from the nests and as it is their first flight where they are only about to learn how to fly, they quickly get really tired and take many rests on the sea, where fishermen then simply scoop them up with nets and then break their necks.
They are considered a delicacy on the islands, as they are so young and fat and they are very easy money for the fishermen.
A fisherman told me, that half of the 20,000 young fulmars are hunted and killed every year in this 14 day hunting season, other sources told me that the number is far more likely to be above 100,000 who are killed.
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Published: Wed 27 Apr 2022 by Casper Hilt
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