Hundreds of dolphin carcasses, slaughtered and washed up on the beach.
Fishermen immersed up to their knees in a sea red with blood.
These images that go around the world every year, regularly denounced by animal rights defenders, could well be the last.
The government of the Faroe Islands announced on Tuesday February 15 the launch of discussions on the future of the "Grind", this ancestral tradition of hunting dolphins.
A petition with nearly 1.3 million signatures calling for a ban on these summer massacres was also submitted to the government of the autonomous Danish archipelago.
The "Grind" consists, once a year, of pushing the dolphins to run aground in a bay by encircling them with boats.
Fishermen on the beach then finish off the cetaceans with knives.
This practice is supported by locals as it is a reminder of how these marine mammals have fed the people of the Faroe Islands for centuries.
But the very heavy toll of the hunt on September 12th caused great emotion.
More than 1,400 white-sided dolphins were killed that day, compared to the usual around 600, prompting Prime Minister Bárdur á Steig Nielsen to react for the first time and call for a "reassessment of the hunt".
Only captures of white-sided dolphins are the subject of discussions on a possible framework for the “Grind”.