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Californias Whaling Coast

By Dale , Vinnedge

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Year
2014
ISBN
3312487137, 978-1-4671-3171-1
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
28 MB (29739496 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00

Description

Yankee whaling, shore whaling, and modern whaling were sometimes occurring simultaneously. Each type of whaling went through periods of discovery, stability, and then a gradual decrease as the products lost their markets or the number of whales began to wane as some species moved toward commercial if not actual extinction due to over-fishing. Small whaling operations from California, called shore whaling, continued from the 1850s until Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans (1969–1972) whistled down the industry in 1971.

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