Dolphins are hunted this way in several places around the world, including the Solomon Islands, the Faroe Islands, Peru, and Japan, the most well-known practitioner of this method. By numbers, dolphins are mostly hunted for their meat, though some end up in dolphinariums.
A cell placed in hypotonic solution will burst or split as a result of water entering into the cell which makes it continue to swell until it burst. 15 people found this useful. Edit.
***the stuff referred to below are solute particles, usually salt particles. Hypotonic solution-the cell swells (and maybe bursts...lyses) and increases in size due to more stuff or particles inside that causes water to rush in to try to spread it out evenly and come to equilibrium.