RESCUE workers battling to save a beached whale had to abadon their efforts after it was washed on to rocks and heavy seas made the operation too difficult.
Residents of a western Alaskan fishing village had good reason to groan, "I feel like a beached whale." It seems that after finding a dead adult beluga on the shore, they harvested the skin and pink blubber in its tail, refrigerated it, and later ate it raw Two days after the whale was found, a physician reported three suspected cases of food-borne botulism.