Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 22 October 1937Vol. VIII, No. 3

Whale Oil

p. 61 · Read in the full issue

Page 6161

German Fleet After Whale Oil

(GERMANY’S new whaling fleet of six X “mother” ships and 44 chasers has left for the Antarctic with the object of obtaining 100,000 tons of whale oil *— which would represent about one quarter of the world’s annual production. The largest “mother” ship (22,000 tons) is capable each day of turning 20 whales Into oil, cattle fodder, and canned cutlets, for which there is an increasing demand in Germany.

A very few more years of this activity by German and Japanese whalers will so reduce the Antarctic whale herds that whale oil will no longer be a competitor in the world’s markets with coconut oil.

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