Minkes were permitted to be landed for flensing at the main whaling stations of Ulsan, on the east coast, and Ucheango, on the west coast, as well as Jukbyeon, Kuryongpo, Heusando, Daichangdo, and Cheju.
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It has been imagined that the hunters who produced the scatter, needed to use the new flint tools to flense animal carcasses at this seasonal camp, situated on a river terrace overlooking the River Devon near to its confluence with the River Trent.
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A further breakthrough occurred in the 1923-24 season when the Norwegian factory ship " Sir James Clark Ross " spent an entire season in the Ross Sea flensing whales alongside the ship while anchored in Discovery Inlet off the Ross Ice Shelf.
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With their flensing knives they alternate cutting deep strips from the flesh of the other's legs at a slow, ritualistic pace with minimal apparent sensation of pain, at one stage rolling such a strip into a rough imitation of sushi and eagerly consuming it.
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The autopsy, conducted under sunny skies before a crowd of onlookers on a stretch of the Cape Cod National Seashore, resembled a demolition project more than a medical procedure, as a back hoe attempted to pull the head away and workers carved the carcass with scythe-like tools called flensing knives.
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At dawn the mould is then removed from the sculpture, which then collapses into a large pile of congealed petroleum jelly with the assistance of the long-handled flensing knives, and the ambergris is lowered back down into the hold to lie alongside the plastic'spine'where it begins to disintegrate.
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In October 1870, Scammon collected the 27-foot-long type specimen of the Davidson piked whale ( " Balaenoptera davidsoni ", Scammon, 1872 ); it had been found dead on the shores of Admiralty Inlet by Italian fishermen, who towed it to Port Townsend Bay, where they flensed it.
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In 1872, the American whaleman and naturalist Charles Melville Scammon described and named " Balaenoptera davidsoni ", after an pregnant female that was found dead on the north shore of Admiralty Inlet in October 1870 in then Washington Territory ( now Washington State ) and towed into Port Townsend Bay by Italian fisherman, who flensed it on the beach.
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The next season, 1866, he used the " Sileno " and the iron steamers " Staperaider " and " Vigilant "-identical ship, bark-rigged, 116-feet long, each carrying two whaleboats and equipped with steam tryworks and powerful winches to bring aboard large strips of blubber when flensing whales.
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They were spotted by the whalemen from suitable vantage points, and pursued by " shallops ", " chaloupes " or " chalupas ", which were manned by six men . ( These terms derive from the Basque word " txalupa ", used to name the whaling boats that were widely utilized during the golden era of Basque whaling in Labrador in the 16th century . ) The whale was harpooned and lanced to death and either towed to the stern of the ship or to the shore at low tide, where men with long knives would flense ( cut up ) the blubber.
