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    Where, and in what year, was the last active whaling station closed in the Southern Hemisphere?

    Question #103969. Asked by madkeen4. (Mar 19 09 9:06 AM)


    Midget40

    		New Zealand ceased whaling in 1964, with the closure of the last whaling station at Tory Channel in Cook Strait. The stocks had been so diminished that humpback whales were no longer migrating through Cook Strait and commercial whaling was no longer viable.

    http://www.picton.co.nz/for/seaportnewscom/

    Eastern Australia finished in 1962.

    Albany, Western Australia:

    King George Sound in Albany, Western Australia. The station ceased whaling operations and was decommissioned in 1978.

    http://www.whaleworld.org/

    Mar 19 09, 9:25 AM
    madkeen4

    		Correct! I visited this station (Cheynes Beach) on a school camp to Albany. I couldn't get over the smell, amount of blubber they cut off the carcasses and the sharks out in King George Sound hunting in the blood runoff and oil slick from the station. (This 'chum' also attracted pelagics)
    Fishing was still good in that area on subsequent visits!


    Mar 19 09, 10:12 AM

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