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parasites include various helminths in the stomach, the intestines,
the kidneys, and-otner organs.
The diseases of hump-back whales, like those of other baleen
whales, are Practically uninvestigated.
U.'he modern whaling industry began to make use of hump-back
whales in the 1680's off the stast of Norway, mhere auout 1,500 of
these animals were taken during 24,seasons. rrom 1910 on the annual
take was 21 or 22 whales. There was a considerable increase in. the
talcs from 1921 to 1927, when front 55-96 up to 141-155 humn-back wnales
were taken in all. areas in a season. During the post-war period not
more than ten or twelve have been taken in a seasen, except tnat in
• 1951 the take rose to 40 hump-back whales.
Data on the take are given in AppendiX 6,
The chief products.are edible oil, of wnich up to five or six
metric tons are obtained from a single whale, and meat, .which is uSed
ho feed animals •n fur-farms and also as human food.
No census of the stocks of hump-back wnales has been taken,
and . tneir numbers are unknown . , The taking of tném has been prohibited •
since 1959, a measure that shoUld help to restore their numbers.
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Blue Whale Ulialaenolitera musculus)
Blue whales arrive in .Debruary and march on the Banks of Newfoundland,
from which they may move by two routes use° Appendix 17).
6Ome of them make• for mavis Strait and the coasts of'southern Greenland,
where they remain until october or Lovemaer,
The route-of.the remainder splits in two. Some of trient move
to • the nortneast, and during the period.from Nay to August pas near
Iceland and Jan Nayen island, reaching tne Norwegian coast and being
observed as. far east as i,evaya Zemlya.
At tne same time other blue
whales are observed in tue Geitzbergen-region unostly between 70 0 ana
.76 ° . 1.4). As thc,. ice retreats 0..e. during the period - :r.om July to
September inclusive) tnawaales advance to higher latitudes. ;_nother
im2our moves to te east, and even to the soutner.st, from Apri,1 ta
june,.and approaches the coasts of Ireland and the neurides.
In Aniolst and ,;e 1Y;.ember, when tue revelse miration'fro.a the
nortnern nnd no rtneasbern ;nr - n of tile Atlantic beins,olue wnales
.appear near I ,'elDna RIA:t 111,2 Faeroe Tnuy ai)pear on -LA: coas -u
or Newfoundland in October and. ..ovember.