British Whaling Plans

Northern Advocate, 21 August 1945, Page 5

British Whaling Plans

LONDON, August 20. The whaler section of the Chamber of Shipping in a report to the Ministries for Food. Agriculture and War Transport, emphasises the importance of the early resumption cf whaling. Little whaling has been carried on durfing the war, so the number of whales has increased. Preparations are at present progressing for British and Norwegian expeditions to the Antarctic. The report suggests that about 20 whaling factories throughout the world should be sufficient in the future. Nine of these should be British. All the pre-war British factories—since used for transporting oil—have been lost. Former enemy countries own nine floating factories of more than 10,000 tons gross. It is pointed out that if the British fleet is to consist of nine vessels of a total of 20 there will have to be a considerable reduction of the factories owned by other countries. The report urges that this should not be at the expense of our ally Norway; it must be at the expense of Germany and Japan. Accordingly, it recommends that all surviving floating factories owned by former en-