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the business : factories were opened right and left: ships got from Norway, as it were by the [[underlined]] gross [[/underlined]].
Most of the factories are closed, and their vessels sold to the Japanese. But I have just come across a note: that in [[underlined]] 1906 [[/underlined]] "[[underlined]] one [[/underlined]] whaler killed 160 whales" : and another note : that of 27 cow whales killed between March and October 1906 only [[underlined]] four [[/underlined]] were in calf. I think this information referred to the Cape Broyle Factory. Mentioning the matter WMe McDougall he remarked that he "thought that would be about the proportion", in his factory too. He promised me precise figures, over the term of years they had been working, but I forgot to remind him again. I remember asking the question on board the "Hawk" of the C. Broyle factory, then lying in $ John's, on learning there was [[underlined]] no legal [[/underlined]] close season, in Newfoundland. I observe that the Newfoundland Administration, though it requires returns from each factory showing (1) number of whales captured (2) how many males; how many females: does not ask : [[strikethrough]] noth [[/strikethrough]] how many in calf, or with calf at foot: & prescribes no close season : but then the ice closes Newfoundland fishing. In [[strikethrough]] England [[/strikethrough]] Scotland, however, there is a close season. By "[[underlined]] An Act to legalate Whale Fisheries in Scotland [[/underlined]]" (passed 28th August [[underlined]] 1907 [[/underlined]]) it is forbidden to kill whales between November 1st and March 31st and further, during "five weeks of the summer herring fishing", under 40 miles from shore. 
This, of course, is to save the herring fishery from damage.