THE ECONOMICS OF WHALING 55 



explicitly defined in the Canadian Act of 1902, 

 Section 13 of which, reads: 



" It shall be unlawful to use, in the catching of whales, 

 such methods by which it depends on chance alone 

 that a whale can be traced and found, or to use any 

 contrivance for the catching or killing- of whales which 

 does not include a harpoon with a whaling line attached 

 thereto, and fixed or fastened to the boat or vessel 

 from which the whale is captured or killed " ; under 

 penalty (set forth). 



A similar regulation prescribing, as the only 

 method allowable, a harpoon with a line attached, 

 fixed, or fastened to a steamer is inserted in the 

 Whale Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1907, and the 

 Whale Fisheries (Ireland) Act of 1908. 



The Irish Act contains a further proviso whereby 

 by-laws may be made prohibiting the use of any 

 engine or implement in the pursuit, capture or 

 towing of whales, or any method of whaling which 

 in the opinion of that authority 1 is injurious to the 

 fisheries. Close times are also provided in both 

 the Scottish and Irish Acts, and these of two kinds. 

 First, an absolute prohibition from the ist 

 November, to the 3ist March next following, and 

 a partial prohibition, within forty miles of the 

 Scottish and within twenty miles of the Irish coast, 

 during the local summer herring season, such period 

 not to exceed five weeks. 



Since it does not appear that any of the Norwegian 

 companies working off the Scottish or Irish coast 



1 i.e., the Central Authority in Ireland. 



