Number of ships and barks 17,685
Number of brigs 907
Number of schooners and sloops 1,351
Aggregate tonnage 6,037,551
Barrels of sperm oil 3,671,772
Barrels of whale oil 6,553,014
Pounds of whale bone 66,687,580
Value of imports $ 272,284,916.27
With an average 25 barrels oil/sperm whale estimated 3,865 whales added to this number 10% for whales mortally wounded, lost after capture totally 4,253 sperm whales. Black whales annually killed including right whales, bowheads, California Greys and Humpbacks with an average 60 barrels oil/whale estimated 2,875 whales added 20% for lost whales totally 3,450 whales. Totally were each year sperm and black whales 7,703 whales killed meaning a shocking 292,724 whales between 1835-1872!
Source
The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America described and illustrated together with an account of the American whale-fishery. Charles M. Scammon. San, Francisco, USA, 1874.
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