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CBTAC EA OF Y0's^:.'1:I PACIFIC AND A"L'JACJJA^T2' WATERS
07.^ THE ARCTIC OCEAt`;
JAN 15 1974
The region â.iscussed here consists of the waters of the
Pacific"'`C>'cean north of the Y^;qua.tor, and also the East Siberian,
Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas.
species-composition of the cetaceans that were formerly,
'i'he
or are now, hunted in this region is similar to that of the North
Atlantic anc. Arctic Oceans and of the entire southern heniisphere,
except for grey whales.. In this region more use is made of the
products of the stocks of small cetaceans (Delptiinidae of various
species, com::1on blackfish, killer whales., beakec. whales, etc.)-
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he roz^imary quarry of whaling ships under sail consisted of
snerm whales and right whales in the temperate and warm zones of
the Pa cific Ocean. Grey whales also were hunted. on both sides of
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the ocean.
At the end. of the first half of the 19th century whalers
},àg-a„ to hunt right whales in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea,
and within two or three decades they had -pra.etically exterminated
these animals there.
At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century
the Jaranese began more intensive hunting of whales off the coasts
of Japan and Korea. Coastal whaling stations arose in the U. S.A.
(California, Alaska, etc.), Canada (Vancouver Island), and several
other countries.
LTntil 1941 not more than three pela,^,ic S•rhaling• flotillas
otiera,ted at the same time in any year, During that period the' whales
ta.ke?i were mostly fin whales, sei whales, srer-m whales, and sometimes
hmmv-ba.ck whales.
The situation changed. substantially after 1951, ;-ihen -- in
addition to the Soviet Aleut flotilla -- Japanese flotillas began
In some seasons as many as seven flotillas i•rere enE;aged
to onexate.
During the 1969 season three Soviet flotillas (in 1970, two)
there.
ope.rated. in the nort'iac,rr_ part cif ti'-e Pacific Ocean, as well as eigl-it
Ja»anese coasta.l s-ta.Uons and th-ree Japanese flotillas, and one 1rnerican
coastal station in California. with 82 whaling vessels. The^,^^,1 ^, ,
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