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um��.."like beluga."

(I had to ask my wife since I am at a loss for description.)

Mostly don't eat 'em cooked. The skin (mantaq/mutuk) is not as prized as the black stuff from the bowhead, but it is still good (with a strong tendency toward "sea flavor"). It gets really soft and mild; kind of the consistency of connective tissues which cook up soft when its cooked. The back straps make good, dark black meat (jerky) when dried - which is what we do with whatever meat we keep. (Whales are always shared, if only for obvious reasons.)

If you live where the ocean freezes, and you miss summer when winters get long, whale can be a good thing, since, to my thinking anyway, it brings out the smell/taste of the open ocean and summertime.



Not everyone's idea of good eats, but low carbs, healthy...



Kind of surprised a Barnes would smear out as much as it did since whale bone is pretty soft, but the boy made good on the delivery with my Swede chambered M70.