but resumed temporarily from 1964 under Japanese administration , and finally concluded in 1967, the Government of Chile to sign the international treaty banning the hunting of the whale.
Chile signed the moratorium, along with most of the nations of the world. Refused to sign only Norway and Japan .
Thanks to international protection, the whale population has a gradual recovery. Among them is the blue whale , which 250 thousand copies had fallen to only 400 copies and then went up to a thousand.
In Quintay whaling worked between 700 and 1000 people throughout the year. Hunting was done with boats equipped with a cannon-powered harpoons. At that time worked up to eight vessels simultaneously, which could hunt whales sixteen daily.
After the moratorium again whales calve in the shallow waters of Quintay On March 28 of 2003 , the fishing vessel "Argus II" while doing chores was fishing extraction with bottom trawl nets for fishing the crustacean Gamba commercial use, extracted a large skull of a whale about 25 miles from Punta Weste Gallo, near Quintay and about 650 meters deep. The captain of the Argos II, Mr. Juan Francisco Moran Medina, decided to move the head to the port of San Antonio and donate it to the San Antonio Museum
