Local fishermen are expected to slaughter about 2,000 of the estimated 20,000 dolphins that will be killed in Japanese coastal waters between now and April.
The hunters bang on metal poles to drive pods of dolphins into secluded coves, where they are speared and hacked to death. The few that survive are sold to aquariums in Japan, Europe and the US.
Despite international condemnation of the culls, the people of Taiji, where coastal whaling is said to have been practised for 400 years, claim the local economy would collapse if coastal whaling and dolphin hunting were banned.
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