A WHALE NETTED
A whale over 25 feet long and weigS* ing between two and three tons wM landed at Fleetwood by the steam trawle? John Cattling. The monster was netted off Barra Head in the Southern A member of the crew said it took two hours to haul in the net. “We hauled the gear up the mast head,” he, saidj “ and then opened the net for the whale to fall on deck. It was alive and occupied half of the fore deck. The lives 1 yielded 50 gallons of oil.” This is the second trip in succession that the trawlos has caught a whale. A few weeks pro* viously the biggest specimen, over 30 feet long, was caught off the coast of County Donegal, and the liver yielded 54 gallons of oil. As the fishermen receive Is a gallon above ordinary wages for oil, whale catching is profitable fa? Fleetwood fishermen.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22742, 30 November 1935, Page 23
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153A WHALE NETTED Otago Daily Times, Issue 22742, 30 November 1935, Page 23
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