2% A HISTORY OF THE WHALE FISHERIES 



caught. There is no close time for whaling. Up 

 to 1912 there was no evidence of any falling off in 

 the numbers of the most numerous species, the 

 Humpback. There is some reason to believe that 

 the local Government is not prepared to grant 

 further concessions for whaling off the Natal coast. 



The Portuguese colonies regulated whaling in 

 the Mozambique waters by a decree dated 27th 

 May, 1911, amended on 3ist August, the same year. 

 Up to that time the Government had granted seven 

 whaling licences for the Mozambique coast-line of 

 nine hundred miles. 



Of these only one was at work, a Norwegian 

 company at Linga-linga in the district of Inham- 

 bane ; this company in its first year killed two 

 hundred and sixty-four whales, which were prepared 

 at a floating station. 



A station at Angoche, after obtaining eight 

 thousand pounds worth of oil, removed to Mokambo 

 Bay on account of the lack of harbour facilities at 

 the former place. The New Transvaal Chemical 

 Company were about to start on an island off 

 Lorenzo Marques. The other four licences had 

 not been utilised up to the commencement of 1912. 



Since the whaling industry in the Dependencies 

 of the Falkland Islands (i.e., South Georgia, the 

 South Shetlands, and the South Orkneys, being the 

 principal centres) is now one of the most important 

 of those yet remaining, a brief resume of the 

 conditions obtaining there is appended. 



This whaling field has of recent years been more 



