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are under Norwegian management. The whaling 

 stations at Bunaveneadar and Elly Harbour cannot 

 possibly be injurious to the herring fisheries. 



RETURN OF WHALING COMPANIESIRELAND- 



WHALES CAPTURED. 



1 Only one company was engaged in whaling in 1914. There was no 

 whaling in Irish waters in the period 1915.19. 



A similar Whale Fisheries Act was passed for 

 Ireland in 1908. It gave the Department of 

 Agriculture and Technical Instruction power to 

 issue licences for the establishment of whaling 

 stations in suitable places, and to impose restrictions 

 for the better control of the industry. The same 

 year a licence was issued to the Arranmore Whaling 

 Company to establish a factory in the Inishkea 



