Report of the Commissioner - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries . rofit, but the conditions are not encour-aging for a great extension of the industry. If a profitable marketconld l)e found for the product, the yield of fish oils throughout theworld could probably be increased many times its jpresent extent. THE WHALE OILS. BRIEF REVIEW OF THE WHALING INDUSTRIES. It is scarcely within the province of the present report to enter intoa detailed history of the whale fisheries, unquestionably the mostpicturesque and once the most extensive of all marine industi-ies ofthe world. In orde
Report of the Commissioner - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries . rofit, but the conditions are not encour-aging for a great extension of the industry. If a profitable marketconld l)e found for the product, the yield of fish oils throughout theworld could probably be increased many times its jpresent extent. THE WHALE OILS. BRIEF REVIEW OF THE WHALING INDUSTRIES. It is scarcely within the province of the present report to enter intoa detailed history of the whale fisheries, unquestionably the mostpicturesque and once the most extensive of all marine industi-ies ofthe world. In order, however, to present a fair idea of the producetion and utilization of whale oils, it is desirable to review briefly thehistory and present conditions of these industi-ies. Whales are divisible into two groups, (1) toothed whales and (2)bonc-l>eariug or whalebone whales. To the first group belongs tluisperm whale or cachalot, which yields sperm oil, spermaceti, ivory,and ainbei-gris. This group also includes the bottle-nose whale, the Repot U. S. F. C. 1902. Plate AQUATIC rilODUCTS IN ARTS AND INDUSTIUES. 187 |)il()t wlial(», Iho Ixluiiii or wliili^ \vli;il(^, and m;iiiy species wliicli aiv not,[)()pularly known as wliales, including tlie narwhal, ) furvowod whales, ori-orquals. The first embraces the right whales of different speciesand the bowhead or Arctic whale, all of which are prized for their oiland baleen. Of the rorquals, or those whales possessing longitudinalfolds of blubber on throat and stomach, may be mentioned the hump-back, finback, sulpliur-bottom, and California gray whale. As theseare ordinarily difficult of capture and are of minor value, the whale-l)one being rather short for commercial use, they have not been pur-sued so extensively as have the sperm, right, and bowhead the United States markets the standard varieties of oils are spermoil and whale oil, and sometimes h
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