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Whales, like sturgeon, are royal fish, which when taken belong as a right to the Crown; but the right to them may be vested in the lord of a manor or other subject by grant from the Crown, or by prescription, Williams on Commons, p. 292.The whaling industry is regulated by the (English) Whaling Industry (Regulation) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 49). The Act prohibits the catching and treatment of whales within waters of the United Kingdom and provides for the licensing of whaling ships and whale-oil-factories....
Gray whale
a rather large and swift baleen whale of the northern Pacific Eschrichtius robustus formerly Rhachianectes glaucus having short jaws and no dorsal fin called also grayback devilfish and hardhead It grows to a length of 50 feet sometimes 60 feet It was formerly taken in large numbers in the bays of California and is now rare It lives up to 50 or 60 years and adults weigh from 20 to 40 tons...
Right whale
The bowhead Arctic or Greenland whale Balaeligna mysticetus from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained...
Mysticeti
A suborder including baleen whales right whales rorquals blue whales and humpbacks...
Balaelignoidea
A division of the Cetacea including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen See Baleen...
Blackfish
A small kind of whale of the genus Globicephalus of several species The most common is Globicephalus melas Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size...
Bowhead
The great Arctic or Greenland whale Balaeligna mysticetus See Baleen and Whale...
cachalot
The sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus It has in the top of its head a large cavity containing an oily fluid which after death concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti See Sperm whale...
Gibbartas
One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic called also Jupiter whale...
Mysticete
Any right whale or whalebone whale See Cetacea...
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