The War Cry . revenue and agreat assistance to the labouring to come. This advice, however, wasnot heeded, the only restrictionplaced on whaling being that stationsshould not be nearer one anotherthan twenty miles, and that eachstation should employ but one steam-er. The result was that whalingstations multiplied, until, by 1905,eighteen were In operation, oecupy- A Whaie. sels took 858 whales, in 1907 fourteenvessels managed to get but 481, In ten years there have been takenout of the waters in the immediatevicinity of Newfoundland, The result is that many oEthe smaller companies
The War Cry . revenue and agreat assistance to the labouring to come. This advice, however, wasnot heeded, the only restrictionplaced on whaling being that stationsshould not be nearer one anotherthan twenty miles, and that eachstation should employ but one steam-er. The result was that whalingstations multiplied, until, by 1905,eighteen were In operation, oecupy- A Whaie. sels took 858 whales, in 1907 fourteenvessels managed to get but 481, In ten years there have been takenout of the waters in the immediatevicinity of Newfoundland, The result is that many oEthe smaller companies have been,ruined, the chief sufferers helns thesmaller shareholders who had invest-ed their entire capital. To-day thewhaling stations of Newfoundlandhave to send their vessels to the nthp void .i*e luca about -Newfoundland .Labrador, armthe Gulf of St. Lawrence, and fifteensteamers wsre employed. Theeffects of this over-multiplicationwere felt at once, as will be seen bythe fact that while in 1903 three ves-. halers at a Newfoundland Station. bankruptcy. But even here, thewhale is getting scarce, owing to theestablishment of stations on thePacific coast and on the coast, oEPatagonia, while we must not forgetthat whaling is now conducted fromNew Zealand, and even from SoutliAfrica. The whales eaucht off MBwrnimd-land, are the Sulphur Bottom andHump-backed species. They are cer-tain]^ now very scarce, wldle theRight whale has been successivelyswept from the Atlantic counts ofEurope anil North America, then,from the North Pacific, and finally,from the Southern Seas. The great Bowbead. or Polarwhale, owing to its restriction to of the Areiio seas arid theease with which it may be taken, is,ir anything, in a wurse plight thanmany of the other species. Somesixty years ago. when the whalingindustry was ai. its ueigiiL, nome foulhundred vessels from this countryand anuther live hundred from Amer-ica, regularly hunted] this creature)and the Right whale. It is computed .that
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