OLD AND NEW WHALING.
M. Bogdanbflf, who took part in the Russian North Sea Expedition sent out daring last summer, communicated, at the general meeting of the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, his observations on the influence of whaling on the fishing on the Normannic coast, which illustrates very well the complicated chain which exists in the animal world. The whale used to be very important to the fisheries, as during the spi’ing it drove to the coast immense shoals of small fishes. Now, whaling being pursued by means of steamers which use a bullet instead of the old harpoon, and the annual number of whales killed being, during the last 17 years, from 50 to 143, the amount of small fishes coming to the coast has much diminished. Besides, the great quantities of fat which are thrown into the sea at Varanger attract sharks, and these last destroy cod-fish, so that now the codfishing is nearly extinct in the western parts of the Varanger fjord region.
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Patea Mail, 4 June 1881, Page 4
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