Catch per boat.
Number of
boats,
1911-12.
1912-13,
68
Mr. Lamb raised the question whether permission to use floating factories increased the difficulties of controlling the industry. On the other hand, the pro- hibition of the use of territorial waters with a view to protection of the whales, might encourage whaling from floating stations outside those waters.
Mr. Darnley said that the difficulties of working outside the three-mile limit in South Atlantic waters solved the problem of controlling floating factories, so far as ⚫ the Falklands dependencies were concerned. The whaling companies evidently pre- ferred operating in harbours or from land stations where practicable, as was shown by the action of Norwegian firms in paying heavily for permits on the coast of Portuguese West Africa.
It was decided that it would be useful to obtain information as to the nature and extent of the difficulties experienced by the Government in Ireland and Scotland in enforcing regulations for the control of the whaling industry. At the same time, the Governor of the Falklands should be asked for a statement as to the administration of the whaling regulations in the dependencies of that Colony.
It was then decided that the Committee should adjourn until after the second week in November.
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3. The total catch of whales-4,197-for the six months under review yielded in all 161,852 barrels of oil, valued approximately at £426,628, or a total weight of 26,975 tons of oil at an average value of about £16 per ton. Including the guano and whalebone, the total approximate value of the catch was £453,830, or £20,405 more than that of the 1911-12 season's catch. It is satisfactory to note, in comparison with the results of the previous season, that although there was a decrease of 1,484 whales taken the decrease in the production of oil was only 10.466 barrels.
4. By the seven companies engaged in the whale fishery of the Dependency, there were employed in all 21 licensed steam whalers. Each boat caught an average of 200 whales, or about eight whales per week during a period of six months. The two whale catchers of the Southern Whaling and Scaling Company, Limited, did not commence operations until the beginning of January.
Taking the average catch of each boat of the seven whaling companies, the following is the result:-
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Company.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O. 885
(No. 110.) SIR,
No. 33.
FALKLAND ISLANDS.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 30 August, 1913.)
[
Government House, Stanley, 26th July, 1913. WITH reference to my despatch, No. 85, of 8th June, I have the honour to enclose a copy of a further report by the Stipendiary Magistrate on the whaling operations conducted at South Georgia during the half-year ended 31st Marchi
last.
2. You will observe that, although the number of whales taken falls con- siderably short of the total catch of either the 1910-11 or the 1911-12 season, there is a substantial increase in the number of barrels of oil and the quantity of baleen and guano produced from each whale.
I have, &c.,
W. L. ALLARDYCE,
Governor.
Enclosure in No. 33.
South Georgia Company, Limited Tousberg Whaling Company
Cia. Argentina de Pesca ...
Bryde & Dahl
Ocean Whaling Company
Sandefjord Whaling Company
Southern Whaling & Sealing Company, Limited
5. Oil.
10 00 00 10 20
295.0
.!
207-5
297-0
251·0
345.5
1910
272.0
202-3
285.6
192-0
230-3
218.0
68·0
108-0
The average number of barrels of oil extracted from each whale, as compared with the 1911-12 season, is as follows :—
1911-12. 30-3 barrels.
1912-13.
382 barrels.
This shows an improvement of about 8 barrels of oil per whale, or 11 barrels
per whale over the 1910-11 season.
The following shows the averages at the seven whaling stations, as compared with the 1911-12 production:
--
Whaling Station.
South Georgia Company, Limited
Tonsberg Whaling Company
Cia. Argentina de Pesca
Ocean Whaling Company
Sandefjord Whaling Company
Bryde and Dahl
1911-12.
1912-13.
barrels.
barrels.
281
42.4
32.2
39.9
26.3
36.9
35'6
45:0
27.6
34:0
28.2
33.6
39.1
39'0
22 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
SIR,
The STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE, South Georgia, to the COLONIAL SECRETARY.
The Office of the Magistrate,
King Edward Cove, South Georgia, 21st May, 1913.
I HAVE the honour to submit, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, the following report on the whaling operations at South Georgia during the half-year dating from 1st October, 1912, to 31st March, 1913, commonly known as the whaling season. For returns from the whaling stations, see enclosed schedules A and B.
2. The past season, while on the whole a very successful one, shows a decrease of 1,484 whales when compared with the 1911-12 season. This is accounted for by the scarcity of humpback whales in these waters, a species which has always been so numerous in former seasons. For example, in 1911-12 there was a catch of 5,100 humpbacks, while during 1912-13 the total number taken was only 2,251. More whales were captured from October to December than during the latter half of the season.
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Southern Whaling and Sealing Company, Limited...
6. Guano. The total output of guano amounted to 53,305 bags (ride schedule B), or an increase over 1911-12 of 23,035 bags. The South Georgia Company, Limited, the Ocean Whaling Company, and the Southern Whaling and Sealing Company, Limited, are required by the conditions of their lease to utilise the whole whaie, but, as remarked in my 1911-12 report, the Tonsberg Whaling Company have now an adequate shore factory with guano plant in full working order, which produced, during the past six months, 12,500 bags of guano; while the Cia. Argentina de l'esca employ a floating guano factory for the utilisa- tion of their waste whale matter. The Sandefjord Whaling Company have now erected a shore station for the utilization of the whole whale carcass and at the time of writing this station is in working order. Five stations were thus engaged in the manufacture of guano, and, from their combined total catch of 2,969 whales, we get an average of 179 bags, as compared with 11 bags during the 1911-12 season and six bags during 1910-11.
The following shows the average number of bags of guano obtained from each
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