Sentences with phrase «american whalers»
American whalers took 150,000 northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) from the Farallons between 1810 and 1813, followed by Russian fur hunters who lived on the Farallons and extirpated the pinnipeds from the islands.
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A whaler in 1938 boasted that «one modern factory ship can take more whales in one season than the entire American whaling fleet of 1846 which number over 700 vessels.»
After Luis's death, his son opened up Long Beach to American settlers, loggers, whalers and fur - traders.