SHIPS ATTACKED BY WHALES 



has been demonstrated on the American west coast 

 to the considerable financial loss of both the Tyee 

 Company of Alaska and the (former) Pacific Whal- 

 ing Company of Victoria, British Columbia. 



The Tyee Company erected a station on the south- 

 ern end of Admiralty Island, sixty miles from the 

 open sea, and although when operations were first 

 begun finback and humpback whales were there in 

 hundreds, they were soon all killed and the vessels had 

 to hunt "outside." 



The Pacific \Yhaling Company spent many thou- 

 sands of dollars building a station at Nannaimo, on the 

 east coast of Vancouver Island, expecting to capture a 

 sufficient number of whales in the bay and straits to 

 supply, their factory. Their hopes were not realized, 

 however, for after two or three seasons' work there 

 were no more whales to kill and the station had to be 

 moved near the open sea. 



It seems to be true that in all parts of the world the 

 blue and humpback whales first leave the feeding 

 grounds and that the finback and sei whales will re- 

 main longer than any other, even when persistently 

 hunted. 



