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California's Whaling Coast - (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) by Dale Vinnedge (Paperback)

California's Whaling Coast - (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) by  Dale Vinnedge (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Yankee whaling, shore whaling, and modern whaling were sometimes occurring simultaneously. Each type of whaling went through periods of discovery, stability, and then a gradual decrease as the products lost their markets or the number of whales began to wane as some species moved toward commercial if not actual extinction due to over-fishing. Small whaling operations from California, called shore whaling, continued from the 1850s until Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans (1969 1972) whistled down the industry in 1971."

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