WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



laws which were excellent for Newfoundland would 

 be absurd on the coast of British Columbia. 



Personally I cannot see how the much-discussed 

 international legislation can be of assistance. It ap- 

 pears to me that local laws are what is needed. 



Experts should be employed to study carefully con- 

 ditions in each locality in order that recommendations 

 may be intelligent. I know of one government which 

 actually declared a closed season upon whales, during 

 which the animals could not be hunted, obviously to 

 allow the females to bring forth their young. Since 

 the fin whales breed irregularly throughout the year, 

 such bungling attempts at legislation are worse than 

 useless and serve only to expose the ignorance of 

 those who make them. 



In not a single country of the globe where shore 

 whaling is being carried on today are there intelligent 

 laws to insure for the future an industry which is 

 yielding millions of dollars every year, or to save from 

 extermination the animals which, of all others on the 

 land or in the sea, have taken the most important place 

 in the history of the world. 



