We had whale regularly when I was a kid in Norway in the early 80&#x27;s. Once a week maybe. It was basically used as a cheap beef substitute, exactly because there was always that extra taste to it that while it wasn&#x27;t bad, wasn&#x27;t exactly something you&#x27;d seek out. It was also tough and required a lot of extra work to tenderize it.<p>I think that at least in Norway whaling would have diminished further by now if the anti-whaling campaigns hadn&#x27;t been so totally unsympathetic that it basically became a matter of national pride to keep it going - whale meat became less and less common to eat as the Norwegian economy grew and most people would just opt for beef anyway. Gently pushing for ever smaller quotas and stricter regulations instead would have suffocated the remaining industry quietly without most people even noticing.