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Hunting of Marine Mammals

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A History of Fishing

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Abstract

The utilization of whales is as old as the fisheries for herring and cod but its operation on a commercial scale started later. In contrast to the fisheries, whaling served, in the first instance, for technical purposes and only at a later stage was it used for the production of human food. As long as it was carried out by aboriginal people on a local scale to satisfy their daily needs for subsistence, there were no problems. However, after the inception of commercial whaling on an industrial level, the populations of these precious animals were rapidly reduced to very low numbers. With this sad event the general limitation of the living marine resources first became evident.

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  1. Institut für Seefischerei, Bundesforschungsanstalt für Fischerei, Palmaille 9, W-2000, Hamburg 50, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Dietrich Sahrhage & Prof. Dr. Johannes Lundbeck

  2. Waitzstraße 48, W-2000, Hamburg 52, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Dietrich Sahrhage

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Sahrhage, D., Lundbeck, J. (1992). Hunting of Marine Mammals. In: A History of Fishing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77411-9_5

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