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The chief product obtained from blue whales was high-quality
edible'oil. The blue whales of the nortnern hemisphere .gave a somewhat
smaller yield of oil than do the saine species in tne . southern
hemiSphere (15 or 16 metric tons froM a single whale).
Canadian investigators have estimated that tne original herd
of blue.. whales in the western part of the s,!orth Atlantic numbered
approximately 1,500 animals, but . that by 1970 not more tnan 10;: , of
that number survived.
)?in Whale (balaonoptera physalus)
Uith regard to migrations of fin whales, be0 iropendix 17.
11.'he first of -these aniMals come to the coast of northern Norway through
Denmark Strait at tae beginning of the second hall of March, ana are
• observed there until -Lie end of April. rhen they disappear, but
after a month they reappear there and remain until August or September.•
What variation in their movements is due to the migrations of the
fishes on•which they feed (herring and catelin).
In May fin whales-arrive on the western coast of 'iorway from
the waters adjacent to the Iberian. Peninsula. They remain there
until August, after which.they depart in a northerly direction. In
winter (sometimes in 2ebruary or March) they appear again on trie
southern coasts of Norway.
in whales are usually present in the Medvezhii
bergen region from late May or early June until August. Large concentrations
of them have • been recorded tnere, oome of tnem going up
along the weut coast of Spitzbergen beyond the 80th parallel.
Yin whales appear in the raeroe Islands region in late Aprii
or early rlay. Thcy are already seen ofl tue .eerideequ.a the .lietlana
Islands in April and early May. In sering ana tue early part of .sUMmer
they stay in the northwes .tern ana northern parts of -the shetland
Islands region, but at Ine end of sumer.ana in autumn taey go away
farther to tne north ana northeast.
.13y March tne first lin wnaleu apDear in tne iceland'reuion,.
but most of them arrive later, and in July and August tney are to be
founa between lcelana and the northeauL siec of Creenlana. -
rneir principal winterin G-Erounas au apvcrunuly locaLej in
the water0 rron toe Azores Lo te COaSIO
aho JiorthwoL3tern
Africa .one or tW.m winter such frl.her north. ;.Atch . whalc, s, whieft
fond 00 horrlh nhoain, elre rOuhd ih
th,2 norweg -jan