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...Unlike your business reporter, I was cheered to learn of Norway's exit from the 18th century endeavor of whale hunting [Nov. 29]. Will the final exit of this industry be the result of responsible action by civilized nations or the extinction of these remarkable mammals? May a whale always be a whale, not margarine, dog food and then a memory...
...Norway, where whale oil has been used as an ingredient in margarine, the price has fallen largely because of heavy competition from fish oil; whale oil is now $163 a ton, one-third less than it was a decade ago. One way to overcome the price drop might be to follow the Japanese example and process every part of a whale, from tooth to tail fluke. But this means a considerable extra investment in factory-ship equipment that the Norwegians are no longer willing to make, especially since their government, while urging them to continue whaling, has offered no subsidy...
...Special Breed of Men. Norwegian whalers first sailed into the Antarctic in 1904; for years after that, their voyages sounded like something out of Herman Melville. The trip to the whaling grounds took a tedious four weeks. The seas were awesome and the food terrible. Even seasoned sailors were sick much of the time. Once the hunt began, they had to face not only danger from harpooned whales but also the nauseating stench of whale processing. The returns, though, made it all worthwhile. In a good year, Sandefjord's seamen earned more in six months than a landlubber could...
...WHALE..287 pages. Simon & Schuster...
Assembled by a crew of international experts, this examination of whales and whaling in many ages and many waters should be blubbery and boring. Instead, it is one of the best organized and stylish big books of the year. The illustrations, including some deft Japanese watercolors, inevitably include scenes of indescribable carnage, but more often they illuminate more attractive aspects of the whale's world or the whaleman's work and art. The Whale covers everything from Ambergris to Zooplankton, but has no index-for which some editor should be harpooned...