Bequia has a limited whaling season and allows the harvest of two sperm whales per year using traditional methods. That is a small sail boat and a hand thrown harpoon. Once the whale is killed it is towed to this little island where it is butchered and the meat is shared with the local population.
No whales were harvested last year or this year. We did see, from quite a distance, one of the small sail boats chase a whale but they were not successful.
It appears that most of the animal is used in one form or another. We saw vendor's selling whale teeth that had been decorated with scrimshaw.
Here is a picture of a bar, surprisingly named "The Whale Bone" go figure, with a whale's rib as a main feature of the bar.
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