PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
PICO. 885
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South Orkneys.
Description of Whales caught.
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Total.
Name of Company.
Barrels of Oil,
Approximate Value.
WHALING: SOUTH GEORGIA.
THE following shows the quantity of oil and whalebone (baleen) extracted from the season's catch:-
Blue.
Fin.
Humpback.
Right.
Name of Company.
Oil.
Baleen.
Guano.
Total.
The Normanna Company
12
179
47
The Thule Company
10
161
48
The Rethival Company
7
140
14
240 220 181
8,700
84,800
Barrels.
7,000
28,000
6,050
24,200
South Georgia Company, Limited
12,884
Value.
8. d. £ 87,152 0 0
Tons. Value Bag-, Value.
£
£
£
8.
d.
61,805 9,784 4,882
48,899 0
0
Totals
29
480
109
8
021
21,750
£87,000
Compania Argentina de Pesca Sandefjord Company
6,800
14,000 0
0
15
870 Nil.
14,870 0
0
9,724
28,890
0 0
20 240 Nil.
29,180
0
0
11,728
29,807 10 0
4,248
14,140 0 0
W. A. THOMPSON,
Treasurer and Collector.
2,700
8,100 0 0
23rd November, 1914.
April
2,000
9,500 0
956
2,629 0 0
Tonsberg Company
Ocean Whaling Company
Floating Factories-
"Restitution " "Thor I." "Ems"
Total
50,080 148,718 10 0 82 5,875 25,690 12,687162,280 10 0
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The following shows the average number of barrels extracted from each whale by the individual companies :-
Name of Company.
Average per whale. Majority of
catch being
83-6
Blue whales.
56-7
Fin
13
97.2
Blue
11
85.5
Blue
69.5
Fin
23
86.2
40
Blue Fin
11
South Georgia Company, Limited Compania Argentina de Pesca Sandefjord Whaling Company Tonsberg Whaling Company Ocean Whaling Company
South Whaling & Sealing
1242,080
22 1,040
8,780 8,078 8,528 1,762
84,460 10
0
16,942 0 0
1,645 1,728
0
2+
4
270 10
1,978' 1,197
9,828 C 0 0 9,770 0 8,836 0
0
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(No. 14.) SIR,
No. 12.
FALKLAND ISLANDS.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 10th March, 1915.)
Government House, Stanley, 21st January, 1915. I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith a copy of the report of the Acting Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. E. B. Binnie, on the whaling operations conducted at South Georgia during the period from the 31st March to the 30th September, 1914.
I have, &c,
Enclosure in No. 12.
W. L. ALLARDYCE,
Governor
ACTING MAGISTRATE, South GEORGIA, to COLONIAL SECRETARY,
23rd October, 1914.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to submit herewith, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, my report on the whaling at South Georgia during the period from 31st March to the 30th September, known as the
"winter season.
2. Compared with the same period last year there is a total decrease of 14 whales, as follows:-
Decrease: 1 right, 134 fin, 71 humpbacks. Increase: 4 sperm, 184 blue, 4 sei.
The average production of oil is equally as good, and that of guano better, as will be seen from the schedules attached hereto; the scarceness of the humpback whale con- tinued through the season, but as quite a number have already been taken this- present season it is anticipated they will again visit the Dependency.
The increase in the number of blue and sperm whales is looked upon by the whaling people as a good omen for the coming season.
3.
The Tonsberg, South Georgia, Argentina de Pesca, and Sandefjord Whaling Companies continued operations during the winter months, although at this period not much whale hunting is done: It is generally a time for prepara- tion for the summer reason, the whale catchers are docked and all whaling gear is overhauled; the continual stormy nature of the weather during the winter does not permit of whale hunting to any great extent.
I have, &c.,
E. B. BINNIE, Acting Stipendiary Magistrate.
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Thor I.," Bryde & Dahl
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63 from carcasses only.
It will be noticed how a majority of fin whales reduces the average.
E. B. BINNIE,
Acting Stipendiary Magistrate.
The following shows the number and variety of whales captured, with the pro- duction of oil, etc., during the past four seasons (winter) :-
1911 1912
1918
Kind of Whale and Number.
Year.
Right.
Sperm.
Blue.
Hump- Fin.
back
Fei.
Total.
80 11
78
898
217
585
4
105
489
109
8
289
299
88
1914
1913-1914.
75880
Increase: Sperm, 4; blue, 184; sei, 4. Decrease: Right, 1; fin, 134; humpback, 71.
111
1,010
854
658 689
* An arrangement is made between this vessel and the Compania Argentina de Pesca, to utilize the flenched whale carcasses when finished with on the shore station; the above quantity of oil and baleen, etc., was produced from about 150 of these carcasses, averaging about 6.3 barrels of oil and 18 bags guano from each
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Production.
Year.
Oil:
Baleen:
Guano
barrels.
tons.
bags.
1911
38,906
15
5,000
1912
39,944
92
18,467
1913
51,140
107
23,882
1914
50,030
831
25,690
1913-1914.
Increase: Guano, 1,808 bags.
Year.
1911
1912
1913
1914
Decrease: Baleen 23 tons, 1,110 barrels oil.
Averages.
Oil, barrels.
Guano.
38.5
4.9
46.7
21.6
783
36.5
78.2
40.2
E. B. BINNIE,
Acting Stipendiary Magistrate.
The following statement shows the total number and class of whale taken by the various licensed companies at South Georgia during the period from 1st April to 30th September, 1914:-
Kind of Whale and Number.
Name of Company.
Right.
Sperm.
Blue.
Fin.
Hump-
Sei,
Total.
back.
South Georgia Company
Compania Argentina de Pesca
Sandefjord Company
Tonsberg Company
Ocean Company
Floating Factories--
"Thor I.," Bryde & Dahl "Restitution
"
Total
2
77
57
12
42
59
52
45
88
49
4
58
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148
111
100
187
61
18
ཧྨཝ།
12
1
11
50
82
00
8
6
289
299
88
4
699
The following shows the number and class of whale captured each month :—
April
May
June
July
August
September
Total
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