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Chunks of meat from the first whales caught since Japan resumed commercial whaling this week fetched "celebration prices" at auction Thursday. The fresh meat sold for up to 15,000 yen ($140) per ...
In modern-day Japan, two cuts of whale meat are usually distinguished: the belly meat and the tail or fluke meat. Fluke meat can sell for $200 per kilogram, over three times the price of belly meat. [8] Fin whales are particularly desired because they are thought to yield the best quality fluke meat. [10]
In 1998–1999, Harvard researchers published their DNA identifications of samples of whale meat they obtained in the Japanese market, and found that mingled among the presumably legal (i.e. minke whale meat) was a sizeable proportion of dolphin and porpoise meats, and instances of endangered species such as fin whale and humpback whale.
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A blue whale calf with its mother near the coast of island Pico ... Blue whales can live for up to 40 years. ... humans could only obtain blue whale meat and blubber when a beaching occurred. As ...
Bowhead whales are still hunted in northeastern Canada: two to four per year. [9] Harvested meat is sold through shops and supermarkets in northern communities where whale meat is a component of the traditional diet. [16] Hunters in Hudson's Bay rarely eat beluga meat. They give a little to dogs, and leave the rest for wild animals. [17]
Higher prices for butcher shops have translated to higher prices for customers.
Flensing at Whalers Bay, Deception Island Flensing is the removing of the blubber or outer integument of whales, separating it from the animal's meat.Processing the blubber (the subcutaneous fat) into whale oil was the key step that transformed a whale carcass into a stable, transportable commodity.