our reporters, veit-ulrich braun and markus bÖhnisch, travelled to the faroes to get a rare glimpse ofthis controversial whale hunt. reporter: it's a good day to go out fishing, one of the few sunny days in the faroe islands in the north atlantic. for twenty years, andreas nyggjegard worked as a fisherman. now, fishing for cod is just a hobby for him. there aren't enough left to make a living from it. andreas only catches them to feed his family -- and to commune with nature. he cites much the same reasons to explain why the the faroese still hunt whales. >> it is special, because, if you look around us, you see birds here and the whales there -- you don't see any the whales now, but the whales -- these animals are living free, and we just take them out and eat them. they are not raised like on a farm in europe, where you have cows and pigs and chickens and everything. you raise them up and on purpose kill them. but the nature takes care of it, we take it out of the nature. reporter: the ship in the distance is one the faroese know very well. it's the brigitte bardot from the sea sheph