Whaling
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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WHALING
Lena McCain
A man named Christopher Hussey, in 1712, was blown out to sea by a massive storm. Luckily, he encountered a sperm whale. Harpooning it, he towed it to shore. That was the beginning of the American whaling industry.
Whaling is the hunting of whales primarily for meat and oil.
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Every one wanted a piece of whale.
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Right whales and sperm whales in all the oceans, grey whales on the west coast of America, and bowheads in the Arctic are usually hunted. Little was known about the size of whale stocks or the migratory patterns of the different species of whales that was not noticed directly through the process of hunting them.
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At first, all the whalers stuck close to New England.
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They would struggle the massive sea monsters to land and process them there.
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By 1846, more than 700 whaling ships of New England were at sea in hunt of the giant mammals.
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New Bedford and MA had become the capital of the whaling industries.
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With people hunting the whales and then harvesting them, the town's people had heat, they had lamps to see, they has the ability to push their imagination to the limit and invent new things.
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