Soviet Whalers’ Good Season
MOSCOW, February 16. A Soviet whaling flotilla, working a remote area of the Antarctica, has caught twice as many whales in a fortnight as in the whole of its voyage last year, the Soviet news agency, Tass reported. The flotilla, named Slava, came across large schools of blue whales when it left the Weddell Sea and forced a way through thin ice eastwards close to the Antarctic coast, the report said. Alexei Solyanik, captain of the flotilla, said that one blue whale caught a few days ago was 93 feet long and weighed 140 tons. Another weighed 135 tons.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28514, 18 February 1958, Page 13
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