petroleum saved the whales the first time. kerosene undercut whale oil for lamps in the 1860s and the yankee fleet went home. then diesel ships and the exploding harpoon nearly finished them a century later.
method historical: Starbuck 1878; Tønnessen & Johnsen 1982.
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