Sentences with phrase «for whale blubber»

Chase's authority over the crew of the Essex, as they set upon sail for whale blubber, undermines George Pollard's power, creating conflict that sees the ship endure unnecessary storm hardship.

Not exact matches

Japan has failed to sell three - quarters of its 2011 whale - meat harvest, a loss of appetite for cetacean blubber that may spell the end of the hunt in the world's largest whaling nation.

For example, whale's milk is especially high in fat because whale babies need a thick layer of blubber to keep warm in cold waters.

Despite the long gap since then, mean concentration of the chemicals in the blubber of some populations of Europe's killer whales exceeds — often by a lot — a high threshold for health damage.

While the researchers in the current study can't pinpoint exposure, people in the Faroe Islands eat a lot of seafood, such as whale meat and blubber — which act like storage containers for these persistent chemicals.

But today in a statement to the islanders, chief medical officers Pál Weihe and Høgni Debes Joensen announced that pilot whale meat and blubber contains too much mercury, PCBs and DDT derivatives to be safe for human consumption.

It is not known, for example, whether transients are content to rip blubber off whales for supper or whether they frequently succeed in making kills of adult whales.

For instance, the posterior, dorsal blubber of a sperm whale is 25 % carbohydrates.

While Dr. Eades is correct that glycogen tends to degrade rather quickly from muscle meat, here we have a study where the average post-mortem time for flensing was 28.4 hrs and the researchers still found that Sperm Whale blubber contained «significant» carbohydrate reserves.

Shore station where whale blubber was boiled down for the oil in the 1850s and 1860s, halfway out on the inner beach of Ballast Point

The blue whale was too swift and powerful for the 19th century whalers to hunt, but with the arrival of harpoon cannons, they became a much sought after species for their large amounts of blubber.

Every year, more than 2,000 whales of varying species are killed for their blubber and meat.

The whales celebrate with champagne in front of banners that read, «We Wail No More for our Blubber,» «Oil's Well that Ends Well,» and «The Oil Wells of Our Native Land, May They Never Secede,» and «Oily Gammon.»

It started as early as the 1800s when fisherman reduced the whale population to use the blubber for lamp oil.

Consuming whale meat can be a health hazard for humans, since environmental contaminants have been found in the blubber of some species at levels far in excess of what is considered safe.

While researchers have known for awhile now that the blubber of these animals contain toxins, they're now seeing the those whales and dolphins living near urban areas have higher concentrations.