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DURING the current investigations into the conditions of Southern whaling, I have had occasion to consult the publications1 of the Norwegian Whaling Bureau, in which the catch statistics given in ” International Whaling Statistics” have been amplified and to some extent analysed. From these data I have calculated the average length of female Blue whales taken from 1930 to 1935. The results are shown in the following table.
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Hjort, Lie and Ruud, ” Hvalrådets Skrifter”, 3, 8, 9, 12.
Mackintosh and Wheeler, ” Discovery Reports”, I, pp. 468–9 (1929).
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LAURIE, A. The Stock of Antarctic Blue Whales. Nature 138, 33 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138033a0
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