. Science of the sea. An elementary handbook of practical oceanography for travellers, sailors, and yachtsmen. sure of the Norwegianfishery, the local fishermen asserting that the slaughterof the whales diminished their catch of fish ; but theNorwegian whale fishers carried their trade elsewhereto Faeroe, Iceland, Scotland, Newfoundland, and morerecently to a number of stations in the Southern Ocean,the Falklands, South Georgia, South Orkney, andelsewhere. In Shetland there are now four stations,and there is another at Bunavenader, in Harris ; thereare also one or two in Ireland. The method of
. Science of the sea. An elementary handbook of practical oceanography for travellers, sailors, and yachtsmen. sure of the Norwegianfishery, the local fishermen asserting that the slaughterof the whales diminished their catch of fish ; but theNorwegian whale fishers carried their trade elsewhereto Faeroe, Iceland, Scotland, Newfoundland, and morerecently to a number of stations in the Southern Ocean,the Falklands, South Georgia, South Orkney, andelsewhere. In Shetland there are now four stations,and there is another at Bunavenader, in Harris ; thereare also one or two in Ireland. The method of fishingis everywhere the same, by means of small steamersarmed with a powerful harpoon gun. The whales aretowed ashore, and their carcasses are rapidly disposedof with the aid of elaborate machinery. The following table shows the catch in Scotland inrecent years : SCOTTISH WHALING RETURNS 393 Q > £ a tf en ft . O. C^ t>- st-vO O m COco O 00 ^ C^GO M M CO O OicofOH moo o tN h O NN COH CO J>> in. on O 00 H J>- 01 | | ! 00 8. n o o\ CO H Tf oo 00 00 . M | , , t^ ? s,21 ilia i O Ti-ro M in vo 00 01 m ro h , i i in m m n 1 in iA 01 N vo in | m , v£> H OO Tf 4 vo CO I «0 1 I 1 tJ- g N fO « oi ; oi CO • CD CD *-^ CO \M o \j cd i co 3 US £ .2 3 • C O r( f| HH cu jt1 ^ 2 u ^3 , JD m in oi vn , i>> mm in ro 01 H tNH , MO in oo m oi O H CJ\ H H -Tj- Tt O^H 01 vo M O^ Tf CO 01 | HVO m vo in in M MINI I I I I I I I I •• o ££-£ p£ co ^ Pi • • & L^rd CO |pqpqpq2KftPQ vV3 •^ CO CO ^ £ co £ ca O .co t £ °£ CO % CO fc e d • • & ^?^ rt | pq pq pq £ ffi ft pq 394 WHALES, SEALS, AND SEA-SERPENTS The industry is prosperous, and the demands for itsproducts appear to increase continually. It is certainthat it cannot long continue without making an im-pression on the numbers of the various species. B. musculus, the Finner Whale, forms the bulk(68 per cent.) of the Shetland catch. This is nearly,but not quite, the largest of the
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