The French Basque ship La Catherine d'Urtubie made the first known voyage involving whale products in 1530, when she supposedly returned with 4,500 dried and cured cod, as well as twelve barrels of whale meat "without flippers or tail" (a phrase for whale meat in brine).
Francuski baskijski brod La Catherine D'Urtubie napravio prvi poznato putovanje vezano za kitove proizvode godine 1530, kada se navodno vratio s 4500 osušenih bakalara, kao i dvanaest bačava kitova mesa "bez peraja ili repa" (izraz za kitovo meso u slanoj vodi).