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MUCH correspondence has recently taken place regarding the use of whale flesh as food, but the writers, regarding it as an experiment or as a last resort, have overlooked the fact that for centuries it formed a regular diet of the islanders of Scotland. In both the western and northern isles the capture of the round-headed porpoise, or “ca'aing whale,” has for long been a systematised industry, whenever opportunity offered, and indeed the earliest evidence of man's presence in Scotland, in Neolithic times, is associated with the demolition of a whale stranded on the shores of the Firth of Forth.
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RITCHIE, J. Whales and Seals as Food. Nature 101, 45 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/101045b0
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