Grace Hickling

Grace Hickling Order of the British Enpire MBE (née Grace Watt; 10 August 1908 – 30 December 1986) was an English ornithologist, naturalist, and nature writer. In 1974 she was appointed Order of the British Empire Member of the British Empire. Quotes On 3rd December, 1958, ten grey seal calves were killed on the North Wamses, a small island some three miles off the north Northumberland coast. This was the first licensed killing of grey seals during the breeding season since the passing of the 1932 Grey Seals Protection Act and it was intended to be the first stage of an experimental annual cull of 300 calves, recommended as a means of reducing the grey seal population of the Fame Islands and thereby lessening the damage done by seals to the salmon fishing industry. 1964 Fisheries and the Farne Islands Grey Seals Oryx (journal) Oryx 7 4 172–176 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/8EB21666A921E8D81116C742F14D58A4/S0030605300002830a.pdf/fisheries_and_the_farne_islands_grey_seals.pdf Grey Seals and the Farne Islands (1962) These youngsters appear to have little fear of man for Jack Shiel tells the story of how, on a day in late autumn when they were line fishing for haddock, a young Grey seal seal kept helping himself to the best fish while the men were taking the others from the hooks. Grey Seals and the Farne Islands Routledge & Paul 1962 https://books.google.com/books?id=fXQMAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=shiel 110 (180 pages) To-day, although numbers of fur seals are still taken—in addition to the Pribilof Islands#Fur trade Pribilof cull some 30,000 yearlings of the South African fur seal are killed each year—the decrease in the number of whales, and the increasing demand for edible oil has meant a growing emphasis on the exploitation of seals for oil. p. 155 Quotes about Grace Hickling In 1949 Grace and Ian Telfer, an Natural History Society of Northumbria NHSN member, decided to mark Pinniped seals in an attempt to follow their movements. Though grey seals are resident on the Farne Islands Farnes, nothing was known about them outside the breeding season. The first seals were tagged in 1951, and within fifteen days the first marked seal was recovered in Norway. This was ground breaking research as no one had realised how far the Grey Seals were traveling. Anne Wilson, 11 July 2025 Amazing Grace. Anne Wilson explores the life of the NHSN’s most famous 20th-century Chair, and the first woman to lead the Society Natural History Society of Northumbria (NHSN) https://www.nhsn.org.uk/amazing-grace/ External links Category:1908 births Category:1986 deaths Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Ornithologists Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:Women authors from England Category:Women born in the 1900s Category:Women scientists from England Category:Zoologists from England