. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. 252 DISCOVERY REPORTS available, and Table 15 and Fig. 5 are therefore drawn up for the four seasons, 1934-8. ' Factories' days' are not given in the statistics for seasons prior to 1934-5, so the earlier seasons, when some ships worked in area V, are not included. During the period 1934-8, however, it is clear that Blue whales, though scarce in area II, were taken in AREAU DEGREES WEST 60 50 40 30 20 10 I I AREA 11 AREAK DEGREES EAST 0 10 20 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 20,000- a 15000
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. 252 DISCOVERY REPORTS available, and Table 15 and Fig. 5 are therefore drawn up for the four seasons, 1934-8. ' Factories' days' are not given in the statistics for seasons prior to 1934-5, so the earlier seasons, when some ships worked in area V, are not included. During the period 1934-8, however, it is clear that Blue whales, though scarce in area II, were taken in AREAU DEGREES WEST 60 50 40 30 20 10 I I AREA 11 AREAK DEGREES EAST 0 10 20 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 20,000- a 15000- 10000- o 20- <; 15- a °-|0- * 5-. BLUE HFIN D BLUE + FIN + HUMPBACK Fig. 5. Total Blue and Fin whales killed, and Blue and Fin whales killed per day, in every io°of longitude in 1934-8. From Table 15. large numbers between 20 and 400 E in area III, and again between 80 and ioo° E in area IV. This suggests a grouping very similar to that of Humpbacks. Fin whales dominate the catches in area II between 20 and 500 W; in area III there is a maximum in about the same position as the Blue whale maximum, but in area IV the maximum for Fin whales is some distance to the east of that for Blue whales. The well-known scarcity of whales about 60 and 700 E is clearly seen. The graph of' whales per day' gives. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (Great Britain); National Institute of Oceanography of Great Britain; Great Britain. Colonial Office. Discovery Committee. London ; New York : Cambridge University Press
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