6. Review of Previous Season's Catch
(from "Chairman's Report of the Fifteenth Meeting")
Mr. Vangstein in presenting his review of the last season's statistics to the
Commission once more referred to the difficulties he had encountered in
obtaining all the particulars necessary to produce complete statistics of the
Antarctic catch.
Up to the time of the Fifteenth Meeting he had still not received all the
necessary particulars of one of the expeditions.
However, information on the number of whales caught and the production of oil
was complete.
The total Antarctic pelagic whaling catch was 11,306 blue whale units made by
17 expeditions compared with 15,252 units caught by 21 expeditions in the
previous year.
The average catch per catcher day was 0.50 blue whale units, about the same as
in the previous season.
However, as the catching boats were fewer and more powerful this figure should
have been higher, and is an indication of poorer conditions.
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