WIPING OUT THE WHALE
CAN IT BE PREVENTED? LONDON, September 4 The ‘Colonial Office is arranging with the South Georgia Marine Station and others to co-operate with Captain Scott’s ship, Discovery, in the whaling research expedition to the Antarctic in 1925. Whatever romance was in the chase of the whale, when the adventurous even pursued it in open pulling boats with handthrown harpoons, has long disappeared. The whale slaying business has been so thoroughly commercialised that the great mammals will soon be extinct, like the moa. The whale has no hope against steam, harpoon guns, and motor boats. The scientific whalers appear to desire to reap posterity’s crop of whales. It is assumed that the voyage of the late Captain Scott’s Discovery is to be more protective than lethal, but the difficulty of calling a close season for whales or marking off a piece of ocean with notices to whalers to keep in bounds, will appear to anyone who remembers how alarmingly large the sea is.
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Southland Times, Issue 19347, 12 September 1924, Page 7
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166WIPING OUT THE WHALE Southland Times, Issue 19347, 12 September 1924, Page 7
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