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Cutting strips of blubber after a whale is brought to a shore processingfacility

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Description

Cutting strips of blubber after a whale is brought to a shore processingfacility. The strips are then cut into smaller pieces for the boilers whichextract whale oil. Oil is also extracted from the meat and bones; oil is alsoextracted from the meat and bones; what is left is made into fertilizer.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection

Display Date

1951 August

Location

Canada, British Columbia, Coal Harbor

Collection

Historic Fisheries