Word: harpoons
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Flanked by a sign asking "Northern Right Whale Endangered?," former committee chair Bonnie J. Becker '95 sprawled out on the Science Center path, wearing--with appropriate underclothing--a fish head, fins and body, and a harpoon jutting from her midsection...
Unfortunately for this particular whale, the track led directly up the coast of Norway -- and on June 17, into the path of the Ann Brita. A few minutes and a well-placed harpoon later, the minke's destiny abruptly changed course. Instead of reaching the Arctic, she ended up on an auction block in the Norwegian port of Svolvaer, sold to the highest bidder for $2.50 a lb. This minke was the first of 160 hauled in by Norway this season for commercial sale. Each of these catches violated the worldwide ban on for-profit hunting established by the International...