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but requires every whaler to be licensed personally, unless he is employed in a whaling vessel which has paid tonnage dues.
The value of the whale oil exported reached a maximum, in recent years, of £645 in 1908-9. It was £272 in 1909-10, £164 in 1910-11, and £228 in 1911-12. The industry is said to be a dying one, owing to the decline in the number of whales frequenting local waters.
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Annexure 1 to No. 43.
NUMBER OF WHALES AND QUANTITY OF OIL, &C., OBTAINED THEREFROM BY THE UNDER- MENTIONED WHALING COMPANIES AT SOUTH GEORGIA DURING THE PAST THRER YEARS-DATING FROM THE 1st OCTOBER, 1909, TO THE 30th SEPTEMBER,
1912.
1909-10.
1910-11.
1911-12.
Company.
Whales.
Oil.
Guano. Whales.
Whales. Guano. Oil.
Oil. Guano.
...
Barrelu. Bags.
31,428 Nil 1,675 997 527
Nil 16,000
1,629 974 405 10,467 Nil 466 13,980 3,130
Barrels. Bags.
52,129
Nil 1,577
49,272
5,000 1,379
Barrels. Bags.
11,682
Nil
41,715 22,758
24,562
Nil 1,112
597 19,600
7,550
612
40,291 9,890 23,269 13,089
Floating Factory.
Bryde & Dahl
404 10,441
Nil
783
19,600
Nil
Bandefjord Whaling Co. Southern Whaling Co.
717
Nil 16,000
871
19,200
Nil
Nil Nil
Nil
Nil
766 Nil 921 Nil
22,300 26,700
Vil
Nil
168 6,230
3,000
Totals
...
3,516 100,316
3,130 6,529 184,363 12,550 6,535 205,187 18,737
III. SEYCHELLES.
Mahé was formerly a considerable centre for whaling, and the industry, which for some time has declined, now shows signs of revival through the enterprise of a Scottish-Norwegian Whaling Company. It is proposed to introduce legislation in Seychelles on the lines of the Falkland Islands Whaling Ordinance, No. 5 of 1912.
Shore Factory.
Cia Argentina de Pesca South Georgia Co., Ltl. Tonsberg Whaling Co. Ocean Whaling Co.
IV. ST. HELENA,
Negotiations are in progress with a view to the establishment of a whaling industry with a shore factory and three steam whalers. The islanders are much in need of the work which such an industry would afford.
St. Helena was formerly a resort of the sailing vessels from New Bedford which carried on the sperm whaling industry, but no whaling has been conducted near the Colony in recent years.
AVERAGE PRODUCTION OF OIL AND GUANO OBTAINED. FROM EACH WHALE BY THE UNDER- MENTIONED WHALING COMPANIES AT SOUTH GEORGIA DURING THE PAST THREE YEARS-DATING FROM THE 1st OCTOBER, 1909, TO THE 30th SEPTEMBER,
1912.
V. HEARD ISLANDS, PRINCE Edward and Marion ISLANDS.
These are uninhabited islands in the South Indian Ocean, and are held under exclusive licences which cover whaling and sealing.
Heard Islands are held by Mr. Johan Bryde, of Sandefjord, Norway, where licence expires on the 30th June, 1913. He has been offered renewal for two years at a rent increased from £100 to £250 a year, but has declined the offer.
in January, 1913, that he had taken nothing from the island.
He stated
Prince Edward and Marion Islands are held by Mr. J. H. Irvin, of the well- known whaling firm of Messrs. R. Irvin and Co., for a period of nineteen years from the 1st of August, 1910, at a rent of £100 a year. Some sealing has been done there The licensee is not under any obligation to by the firm, but apparently no whaling. give information as to his whaling catch (if any).
Shore Factory.
Cia Argentina de Pesca ...
19-09-10.
1910-11.
1911-12.
For 3 years.
Company.
Oil.
Guano.
Oil.
GuLno.
Oil.
Guano.
011.
Guano.
Barrels. 31.5
31.0
Barrels, Bags. Bags. Nil
Barrels. Bags.
Barrels.
Baga.
Nil
28.3
Nil
30.2
Nil
30-3
Nil
30.2
3.0
30.2
16.5
30-2
7.8
25-8
Nil
25.2
Nil
36.2
8-8
30.2
3.9
34.2
6.7
12-6 32.8
38.0
21.3
35.1
14.1
Floating Factory.
Bryde & Dahl
25.8 Nil
25.0
29-1 Nil
Nil
26.6
Nil
Bouthern Whaling Co.
Sandefjord Whaling Co....
23.7
Nil
22.0
28.9 Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
37.0
Nil 17.8
24.6
Nil
37.0 17.8
South Georgia Co., Ltd. Tonsberg Whaling Co.
Ocean Whaling Co.
VI. NIGHTINGALE, GOUGH, AND INACCESSIBLE ISLANDS. Tenders were invited for a licence of these Islands to cover whaling, sealing, and the collection of guano. The tenders received are at present under consideration.
TOTAL CATCH OF WHALES AND PRODUCTION OF OIL AND GUANO THEREFROM DURING THE PAST THREE YEARS DATING FROM THE 1st OCTOBER, 1909, TO THE 30th THE AVERAGE PRODUCTION PER WHALE EACH YEAR is also SEPTEMBER, 1912.
SHOWN.
VII. OTHER POSSESSIONS.
No whaling is known to be carried on in any other British possession, apart from the Dominions. An enquiry was received by the Government of the East Africa Protectorate, but led to no result.
Colonial Office,
31st December, 1913.
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Average per Whale.
Whales.
Oil.
Guano.
Oil.
Guano.
Barrels.
Bags.
Barrels.
Bage.
1909-10
3,516
100,316
3,130
28-5
8
1910-11
6.531
184,363
12,550
28.2
1.9
1911-12
6,535
205,187
48,737
31.2
7.4
J. INNES WILSON,
King Edward Cove,
South Georgia.
12th November, 1912.
Stipendiary Magistrate.
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