A Whale of a Deception

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Type:	Journal Article
Author:	Clapham, Phillip J.; Ivashchenko, Yulia
Journal:	Marine Fisheries Review
Volume:	71
Page(s):	44-52
Date:	2009
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/6570
Sector:	Fisheries
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Subject(s):	whaling overexploitation
Abstract:	"In late October of 1966, an imposing ship steamed quietly through the placid waters of the Suez Canal. Clad in drab industrial gray, and flying a Soviet hammer and sickle flag at her masthead, the vessel was accompanied by a large fleet of smaller craft. Any observer able to decipher Cyrillic script could have read, in rusting metallic letters on her bow, the name Sovetskaya Ukraina. The more experienced would perhaps have identified her as a whaling factory ship, traveling with her attendant fleet of catcher boats and scouting vessels on a transit that would take them south into the Red Sea and beyond. Although the whaling fleet may have presented a noteworthy sight, Sovetskaya Ukraina’s passage through the Canal was nothing unusual."

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