Footage reveals dolphin massacre

THE sea turned blood red when Japanese fishermen hacked to death dolphins they had trapped in coves around a small port.

An American anti-whaling group trying to stop the massacres released video footage yesterday of a recent hunt that shows blood-filled coves and several dead dolphins being brought ashore in boats.

The tape, shot by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, graphically captures the end of a hunt, in which fishermen pound on the water, causing waves that confuse the mammals’ sense of direction, and then corral dolphins into small coves where they can be easily killed with sickles.