THE WHALING INDUSTRY 



681 



"dolphin fishery," etc. Treatment or processing of the carcass yields many prod- 

 ucts: unmodified, primary, or raw products, and derived, processed, or secondary 

 products. Further refinement to obtain other products is not considered a part of 

 the whaling industry. 



Table 152. World Whaling Statistics. 



Source: (Up to 1946-47) International Whaling Statistics, 21, Tables a, c, d and e 

 (1949); 1947-48, ibid., 23, a, b, d, e (1950). 



* These figures do not include the Japanese home islands and Bonin Islands for years 

 1942 through 1945, which, from Terry, W. M., "Japanese Whaling Industry Prior to 

 1946," Tables 9 and 11, Kept. 126, published by Nat. Res. Sect., Supreme Command for 

 Allied Powers, Tokyo, 1950, are: 



Met. Tons Met. Tons 



The yieW in metric tons of oil was only a fraction of the total products, much of which 

 was meat for local human consumption. 



The following is a list of the Cetacea of the world. Whales are usually more than 

 20 feet long, dolphins are smaller than 15 or 20 feet and have a distinct beak on 

 the head, and porpoises are similarly small in size but are without beak. 



Class Mammalia: Mammals 



Order Cetacea: Whales, dolphins, porpoises 



Suborder Odontoceti: Toothed whales, dolphins, porpoises 



Family Platanistidae : Long-beaked river dolphins 



Platanista gangetica (the Gangetic dolphin, or "susu") is small in size. Although 

 there is no large scale fishery, this dolphin is taken occasionally in the Ganges, 

 Indus, and Brahmaputra rivers. Possibilities for extensive fishery are poor. 



