I remember a docco about a really remote Siberian port. They'd stopped whaling by then, but an older fellow explained the mounds of whalebones on the shore. They were required to bring in 20 whales per boat each season. The demand had ended long ago, but if they failed they faced prison :/
I remember a docco about a really remote Siberian port. They'd stopped whaling by then, but an older fellow explained the mounds of whalebones on the shore. They were required to bring in 20 whales per boat each season. The demand had ended long ago, but if they failed they faced prison :/
It used to be an important resource though.