among them, veteran campaigner karla sanjur. >> it's a very brutal process. there's nothing humane about it. the fact that they are driven in from the ocean and held for several nights while they have to witness their family members taken from them. and then they are brutally slaughtered while swimming in the blood of their relatives. that blood has turned the sea red. entire families are trapped, including babies. the mammals panic, exhausted by fear. as is natural for dolphins, they try to protect each other from the fishers' spears and knives. the fishers are allowed to catch and kill up to 2,000 dolphins a year in taiji. for the small town, it's big business. >> whales and dolphins have always been part of our culture. i wish people from abroad would finally appreciate that. >> we eat other animals after all, pigs, chickens, cows. i don't see what the problem is with dolphins. >> hunting might be an old tradition, but there's more to the story than that. while many of the dolphins are killed for meat, some of the strongest young specimens end up in live e