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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