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Under the terms of this agreement, factory ships are barred from 

 operation on the calving grounds of whales, and are obliged to make 

 the fullest possible use of the whale carcass. Some minor modifica- 

 tions were written into the Protocol of June 1938, including the pro- 

 tection of the decimated stocks of humpbacks in Antarctic waters and 

 the establishment of an Antarctic whale sanctuary between the Ross 

 Sea and Cape Horn. 



We are now witnessing what, without much doubt, is the last phase in 

 the history of whaling, for after the culmination of the present ex- 

 ploitation of the Antarctic seas, Avhere in the past 40 years more than 

 750,000 whales have been killed, no unexplored seas are left to be 

 harvested. 



If the exploitation of the whale stocks continues on the present scale, 

 the time must soon arrive when the last remaining stocks of whales 

 will be so depleted that it will be economically impossible to operate 

 the great floating factories. One more of nature's bounties will have 

 been sacrificed to man's greed. 



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