Today was the second day of the captive selection process in the killing cove as 200 plus dolphins were tormented for another grueling 8 hours. The dolphin killers were dividing families as they herded each dolphin one by one under tarps for trainers to select the more suitable for enslavement. Many of the pod sustained multiple injuries. The process was bloody and brutal as killers manhandled and wrestled these dolphins into transfer nets. We witnessed killers in skiffs deliberately run over the pod several times while attempting to section off the pod into smaller groups.
A total of 15 dolphins were taken today from the cove via sling and transferred to the Taiji harbor sea pens and several captive facilities in Taiji. The remaining pod is still being held for a third night and will await their fate until sunrise tomorrow. We expect that most of the pod will be slaughtered and some too small to claim for quota will be driven back out to sea to fend for themselves. One Pantropical Spotted dolphin was found dead in the Taiji harbor holding pens where it was quickly hidden under a tarp and dragged to the butcher house. This dolphin was from the captives taken just a few days ago from the cove.
Today, 15 Bottlenose dolphins were taken for a life of imprisonment in captivity. Of the total from today, 1 dolphin did not survive the gruesome kidnapping process and died in transfer to its awaiting cell. In the last two days, a total of 40 Bottlenose dolphins have been kidnapped from their families.The remaining 200+ Bottlenose dolphins will spend a third night in the cove without food and brutally murdered tomorrow morning.
2 skiffs with trainers and killers has just appeared from the shore with 3 new captives. Today, 12 dolphins have been taken captive alive & 1 dead. 1:53p