France,
St.Pierre, Whaling
approx. WWl
This French Channel port of
Saint Pierre is not a whaling station to the degree that many
others were and this large baleen whale, a fin or maybe a blue
whale was probably an opportunistic catch. But like so many other
parts of the world by the sea, the prospect of a whale was too
tempting prize. Sometimes, if the whale could not be processed, it
was simply caught and brought ashore as a curiosity drawing crowds
from many miles away. Even if the whale's carcass could not be
used to supply whale products, it could be profitably used as an
attraction for making money by other means.
The fate of this particular
specimen is not known.
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