Colored lithograph illustrates the classic Faroe Islands whale hunt in Westmannshaven Bay, Norway. Called the grindadr��p, usually shortened to grind (rhymes with grinned), it is a kind of roundup and kill of entire pods of long-fin pilot whales (blackfish or ca'ing whales). Westmannshaven Fjord, on the island of Str��m��, is one of several places at which the classic grind is prosecuted. A pod of pilot whales is surrounded and cut off from the open sea by a wide semicircle of boats, stones attached to lines are thrown into the water behind the animals to gally them as the boats drive them into the bay��a saltwater box canyon with only the one outlet ��where most of the whales beach themselves. Originally, any whale not beached would be stabbed with a sharp hook, called a gaff, and hauled ashore; but since 1993, in response to allegations of animal cruelty, the Faroe Islanders have been using blunt gaffs inserted into the blowholes, and by that means pull the animals onto the beach.
