MODERN WHALING.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19942, 31 May 1930, Page 17

MODERN WHALING.

sfeto.-OB nima or -an fuss pJvf*l.lave lead with great interest (BfflWisg Aagaard's articles on whal--B|ysad the tame day read an article WMpM:-'!.' Caiman, Keeper of ZooPVlßrltißh Museum, entitled "BepttytEjtinct and Disappearing AniWTjpes»'(6ee "Wonders of Animal' jf**! .pp.' 1203 ft). About whales, hSWIs «» species it known to have been pwtttllMktezahUted as yet, several have gP/WOTjM perilously near to that limit. jMMftt-frMHBt Mala of the whaling indusgrvwwtesc the very existence of all. . . . great Una whale, the largest [gJsi~Bo-feir"as. we'know, that has aver iW»''M| extensively punned in various |gs ? «f, tfw, Northern Hemisphere. -Here, IWUftory repeated itself and the industry gfwiei.as -whalers became scares. In the gW-Ttsrsot tbe twentieth century, howjK«J»"rifh whaling grounds ©f the AntWJl** 1 * sttaelced, and sinoe then, esBW?*** South Georgia and the islands to Rmlfc-et it, whaling has' been developed ■bfrsato previously undreamed of. In. the 55»*19?5.a6 soma 13,000 whales were SHeJHWs region. It can hardly be doubtg£™ftia wholesale destruction is a serious 3S B*' 8 *' *• >*e very existence of some of the |y**&- the people who have written a**" Whaling- in the newspapers are ssir •** i * rnoTant nnd thoughtless Sg« Aagaard appears to consider ggr^the • same cannot betaid of a BJT*** of Mr Caiman's standing. gWWjr for-the future of whales, and P*#«aHy of the whaling industry, gWgt"My be"described as "altogeththat the legislatures conK??!!" 6 t aHa K practical steps to reg-the-hunting.—Yours, etc., ( M sy 30tn> 1930#