[Images of America: California 01] • California's Whaling Coast
- Authors
- Vinnedge, Dale
- Publisher
- Arcadia Publishing
- Tags
- unknown , history
- ISBN
- 9781467131711
- Date
- 2014-07-07T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 28.36 MB
- Lang
- en
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.