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From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped at the island he named L'Isle-aux-Coudres, Jacques Cartier saw how the Indians captured the little white beluga whales by setting a fence of saplings into off-shore mud. In the film, the islanders show that the old method still works, thanks to the trusting "sea-pigs," the same old tide and a little magic.

Beluga Days is a 1968 documentary with a runtime of 15 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 6.7.