WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



that the whales drove the fish toward the land and 

 into their nets and that their industry was being 

 greatly injured by the slaughter of the animals. Al- 

 though it has been clearly demonstrated that whales 

 have no direct influence upon the movements of fish, 

 nevertheless in 1903 the Storthing prohibited shore 

 whaling altogether. 



The efforts of the Norwegian whalers had been 

 watched with interest in other parts of the world and 

 in 1897 shore whaling began in Newfoundland; there 

 it thrived amazingly, and by 1905 eighteen stations 

 were in operation upon the island and in its imme- 

 diate vicinity. 



In 1905 the first shore station on the Pacific coast 

 of America was built at Sechart, in Barclay Sound, 

 on the west side of Vancouver Island. This factory 

 was under the management of the Pacific Whaling 

 Company, of Victoria, B. C, and although their 

 first season was not a success, a revision of the meth- 

 ods of handling the carcasses resulted in a lucrative 

 business being established. In 1907 a second fine 

 station was erected at Kyuquot, one hundred miles 

 north of Sechart. 



About this time the Tyee Company was formed 

 under the direction of Captains Hibberd and Barneson, 

 and a station was constructed at Murderer's Cove, 

 on the southern end of Admiralty Island, Alaska. The 

 hunting here was entirely conducted in the inland 

 waters of Frederick Sound, and after a few seasons 

 the whales became so reduced in numbers that opera- 

 tions had to be transferred to the open sea about 



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