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Antarctic baleen whales: history and prospects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

J. A. Gulland
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Whalers and sealers were the first people to visit the southern oceans in numbers, and in the 1930's Antarctic whaling accounted for some 12 per cent (by weight) of the total harvest of fish and other animals from the sea. It was the importance of the whaling industry and the need to know more about the physical and biological system on which it was based that was the justification for the classic work organized by the Discovery Committee between the wars. Since then whale catches have declined in absolute and relative terms, and public concern for the whale as the victim of an outstanding example of bad management of a large natural resource has increased.

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Polar Record , Volume 18 , Issue 112 , January 1976 , pp. 5 - 13
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Copyright Cambridge University Press 1976

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