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I live in Japan and I found this article this article that made me get upset with my Japanese wife. Japan has recently gotten away from whale meat but me wife will eat it if it is available. After reading this article and learning that a whale can live 200 years that made whale hunting a criminal event. After reading this summary take a look at the article, you’ll be shocked at how greedy the human race is.
BOSTON (AP) — A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt - more than a century ago. Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale’s age, estimated between 115 and 130 years old.
…The bomb lance fragment, lodged in a bone between the whale’s neck and shoulder blade, was likely manufactured in New Bedford, on the southeast coast of Massachusetts, a major whaling center at that time, Bockstoce said.
…The 49-foot male whale died when it was shot with a similar projectile last month, and the older device was found buried beneath its blubber as hunters carved it with a chain saw for harvesting.
“It’s unusual to find old things like that in whales, and I knew immediately that it was quite old by its shape,” said Craig George, a wildlife biologist for the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management, who was called down to the site soon after it was found.
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