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.
A hypotonic solution, which has a lower concentration of salt than blood, causes cells in contact with it to swell, or even burst. A solution with a higher salt concentration than blood will, when mixed with blood, cause blood cells to shrink.