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[julian_w]

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"Research by Dr Roger Payne of the Whale Conservation Institute and others has shown that whales, as the ultimate ��end users�� in the ocean food web, are also the hapless repository for the lethal co'ktail of toxins and contaminants dumped into the sea by humans.

��A 2002 analysis of whale blubber from Norway found it brimming with mercury, dioxin, polycholorinated biphrenyls (PCBs), dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethene (DDT) and brominated flame retardants. US food laws ban the sale of fish with more than two parts per million of PCBs; beluga whales in the Gulf of St Lawrence have up to 3200 parts per million, meeting the Canadian Government definition of a toxic hazard.��

By Dave Hansford, in New Zealand Listener May 28, 2005, p.27

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Fun and games these days in Ulsan. http://weblog.greenpeace.org/koreawhales/

Big-wigs' schedule for the next month. http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200505/kt2005052716171311990.htm

Visit the Whale Embassy (The Whaleway Station) http://www.comebackwhales.com/english/index.html

11 - 13 June = Party time! http://www.sbs.auckland.ac.nz/research/ecolevol/baker/symposium/index.htm

[JacktheCat]

I ate Minke whale sushi and tartar in Iceland and I am still healthy, though I have to say the taste is not all that great. Very greasy and with a strong aftertaste.

Dolphin steak on the other hand is delicious.

[Guri Guy]

I have heard that sharks are much the same. So I suppose they get their revenge after people eat shark fin soup.