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> At the peak of the whaling industry, in the late 1800s Yeah, if you start your article with a falsehood that you could have easily fixed with a cursory read
by ovi256 5y ago
> At the peak of the whaling industry, in the late 1800s
Yeah, if you start your article with a falsehood that you could have easily fixed with a cursory read of any history of whaling, I can't trust you enough to know what you're talking about.
Peak whaling was 1965-1970, have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_whaling#/media/File:Whaling_by_country.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_whaling#/media/File...
- MichaelZuo 5y agoYeah, that makes me immediately doubt the article.
- aquadrop 5y agoTo be fair that chart only starts in 1900, so you can't see 18th century here. And in the wikipedia page of this chart it says "By 1900, bowhead, gray, northern humpback and right whales were nearly extinct, and whaling had declined". But also in the original phrase "peak of the whaling industry" speaks not just about number of whales killed, but size of the industry as a whole, amount of people involved. Because with new tech I suppose those massive killings in 1960's required much fewer people.