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Show I and its sister port. Fair Haven, and "5 from Nantucket Three years later high-water mark in the industry was reached with GS0 ships, aggregating :c:!.2f.S tons. Today only 32 vessels, wltli a total tonnage of 6.C13 are engaged en-gaged in the search for whales. j I Whales Are of Yesteryear. The decline In the whaling industry has reached a point where it nolonge-Is nolonge-Is profitable to maintain a periodical devoted to Its interests, it is asserted by the publishers of the Whalemen's Shipping List, who recently announced that that week's issue would be the last of that weekly journal. When the paper was established, in 1843, the number of vessels engaged In the whale fishery was 675. with an Bgeregnte tonnage of 199.174. Of these ahips 260 hailed from New Bedford t |