As It Happens

A dirty job: how to butcher a giant, rotting blue whale

A team from the Royal Ontario Museum is deep in whale guts. They've come to Newfoundland to remove and clean the flesh from the 25 metre-long blue whale that washed up in the town of Trout River. Mark Engstrom is Deputy Director of Collections and Research at the Royal Ontario Museum.  He tells Carol about the challenges of the job.  ...

A team from the Royal Ontario Museum is deep in whale guts. They've come to Newfoundland to remove and clean the flesh from the 25 metre-long blue whale that washed up in the town of Trout River. Mark Engstrom is Deputy Director of Collections and Research at the Royal Ontario Museum.  He tells Carol about the challenges of the job.