70
whale reduced at the above-mentioned five stations, as compared with the 1911-12
season:-
Average quantity of
guano per whale.
Station.
1911-12.
1912-13.
bags.
bags.
South Georgia Company, Limited
1181
24.3
Ocean Whaling Company
19:91
36:0
Southern Whaling and Sealing Company, Limited Tonsberg Whaling Company...
14.70
14:1
3.92
16:4
Cia. Argentina de Pesca
Nil
3.9
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SCHEDULE B. WHALING.
SOUTH GEORGIA.
THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT shows the total production of oil, &c., with approximate values, obtained from the whale catch (4,197 whales) at South Georgia. during the half-year dating from the 1st October, 1912, to the 31st March, 1913:-
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Production.
7. Whalebone. As during the 1911-12 season, the whalebone includes that taken from the right whale (true baleen), the blue, fin, and humpback whale. but the quantity herein given-176 tons--while exceeding the 1911-12 figures y 95 tons, is much less than what is really shipped, as large quantities are often used for cargo stowing purposes, and are seldom taken into consideration when the returns are being sent in.
Whales captured during the past three seasons.
Shore factories---
Name of Company.
Total Value.
Oil.
¡Value.
Whalebone. Value. Guano. Value.
!
South Georgia Co., Ltd.
Barrels.j £
31,000 85,000
Tons.
£
Bags.
£
£
45
910 20,200
8,080 93,490
Ditto
"Horatio "" 1,200 2.400
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
2,400
Cia. Argentina de l'esca...
Tousberg Whaling Co. (with 30,300 77,265
floating factory).
Ditto
161
500
12,500
5,000
82,765
23,827 59,567
334
337
Nil
Nil
59,904
Right. Sperm.
Blue.
Fin.
Humpback. Bottlenose.
Total.
Ditto
"Nor"• 4,000 8,000 *Ems".
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
8,000
Ocean Whaling Co.
400 18,254 | 60,846
800
10
200 3,000
1,500
2,5()
40
1,200
14,600
7,500
69,546
PI0-11... 1911-12... 1912-13...
...
19
Nil
76
97
5,299
Nil
5,521
Floating facturies-
B
20%
299
5,100
Nil
5.6x1
Sandefjord Whaling Co. (2 float- 19,600 56,750
12
175 Nil
Nil
56,925
7
212 1,724
2,251
1
4,197
ing factories).
Bryde & Dahl
22,000 55,000
18
3(X) Nil
Nil
55,300
Total for three Seasons...
122
10: 496 2,120 12,650
I
15,390
Southern Whaling Co.
8,271 21,000 Nil
Nil
3,005 1,500 22,500
Totale
Total production of oil, &c., during the past three seasons.
| 161,852 | 426,628 ||
176
3,622
53,305 23,580 453,830
Sewon (6 months).
Oil,
Whalebone.
Guano,
Total value,
• Separate returns were received from the floating factories employed by the Companies (shore stations) under whose name they appear above.
J. INNES WILSON,
1 x L x 12 Ti
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
19
Reference :-
C.O. 885
22 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
Barrels.
Tons.
Bags.
+
1310-11 1911-12 1912-13
150,457
R9}
11,050
414,352
21st May, 1913.
172,318
XI
30,270
161,852
176
58,305
Totals
481,627
346
94,625
435,425 453.830
1,301,007
I have, &c.,
J. INNES WILSON,
Stipendiary Magistrate.
SCHEDULE A. WHALING. SOUTH GEORGIA.
THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT shows the total number and class of whales captured by the various whaling companies during the half-year dating from the 1st October, 1912, to the 31st March, 1913 :——
Name of Company.
i
Class of Whale.-Number.
Tutal.
1
Right.
Sperm. Blue.
Fin. Humpback.
Other.
South Georgia
Company.
Nil
30
293
505
Nil
830
Limited.
Tonsberg Whaling Company |
34
BOX
412
Nil
750
Cia. Argentina de Pesca
Nil
30
268
464
Nil
703
Bottlenose.
Ocean Whaling Company
Nil
11
236
1
Sandefjord Whaling Company
105
1
51
235
Nil
#175
Bryde & Dahl...
Nil
Nil
299
326
Nil
653
Southern Whaling & Sealing
Nil
Nil
24
85
103
Nil
212
Company.
Totals
2
212
1,724
2.251
1
1.197
South Georgia,
21st May, 1913.
2222
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J. INNES WILSON,
Magistrate.
Attached to 29140
No. 34.
Magistrate, South Georgia..
REPORT REGARDING THE WHALING INDUSTRY OF THE PORT OF DUNDEE BY THE ACTING SUPERINTENDENT, MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICE, BOARD OF TRADE, DUNDEE.
According to the table of statistics which accompanies this report, the whaling trade in Dundee appears to have reached great prosperity in the years 1884-1886, but after that time it gradually decayed, owing príncipally to the following causes:- In 1896, the Dundee firms took a smaller share in the Newfoundland seal fishing, and finally abandoned it in 1900, owing to the withdrawal from that trade of the influential firm of Messrs. W. Stephen and Sons, and this is regarded as the out- standing date of the decay of the industry. But the most important of all the causes was the difficulty in getting whales, owing to their gradual disappearance, consequent on the indiscriminate slaughter of old and young whales by masters and crews of whaling vessels. The whale is of huge bulk, is long in reaching maturity, slow in reproduction, and, therefore, it could not be expected that the multiplication of the species could keep pace with the great toll that was yearly made upon it.
Another cause of the decay of the trade in Dundee is the unremunerative market prices now offering for whalebone per ton, owing to the great numbers of South Sea whaling companies which were started four or five years ago, and now operate with stations at Natal, in Australia and at South Georgia, flooding the markets with bone of inferior quality, but which apparently meets the demands of the market almost as well. As this bone is sold at about half the price of the bone secured in the Arctic regions, the whalebone brought by the Dundee whalers has consequently fallen in value.
The local firms still engaged in the trade regard it as extremely doubtful if there will be a revival of the whaling industry to any great extent in Dundee.
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