Whaling grounds and seasons for the right whale (Eubalaena glacialis-Eubalaena japonica-Eubalaena Australis) fishery in 1857

Eubalaena glacialis=North Atlantic right whale

Eubalaena japonica=North Pacific right whale

Eubalaena Australis=Southern right whale

-Between November-March off Tristan de Cunha.

-Between January-March off Crozetts and Desolation Islands

-Between October-March off the south coast of New Holland

-Between February-October in the Japan Sea

-Between May-September on the Kodiak grounds

-Between March-November as soon as the sea is ice free in the Ochotsk Sea.

Source

Rev. Lewis Holmes. The Arctic Whaleman or, Winter in the Arctic Ocean. Boston, 1857.