QUEST FOR WHALES
South African Fleet DUBBAN, April 2f. A new field for South African whalers is to be tried this winter by the factory ship Pratemitas and her five catchers, which'have been ac^uired by the Union Whaling Company, Durban. In June the Pratemitas, with her little fleet, will set out to hunt whalebone whales in the Indian Ocean. She will probablv go 400 :or 500 miles out from Durban, nfear the coasts of Madagascar, Mauritius and Eeunion, t>r the hunt may take her further south. She will spend three months in these experimental operations before returning to Durban to refit for th© Antarctic season. It is belieyed that the whales, which have been seen in the Indian Ocean a't all times of the year, do not neeessarily come from the Antarctic, but that they migrate backwards and for- ' wards along the Afriean coast and as far as India. ^ . -
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 122, 9 June 1937, Page 12
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