More than 100,000 dolphins die worldwide each year, many as bycatch, others hunted deliberately, and this DW investigation follows the trail through Japan, the Faroe Islands, and West Africa. In Ghana, where dolphins have been legally protected since 1971, an investigative team documents roughly 10,000 killed annually, filming dead animals landed daily at the fishing village of Dixcove despite wary locals who know the practice is illegal. The film links the hunting to European and Chinese trawler fleets that have overfished Ghanaian waters, leaving small-scale fishers few alternatives. It then travels to Senegal's Saloum Delta, home to the largest population of Atlantic humpback dolphins, a species with fewer than 3,000 individuals left and listed as critically endangered. There, researchers track the animals' behavior and visit local schools to teach children about protecting them. Interviews with fishers, conservationists, and scientists frame a story about scarcity, survival, and whether local education programs can slow a decline driven largely by industrial fishing pressure far offshore.