Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska (1898) (14766815785)

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Title: Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska

Year: 1898 (1890s)

Authors: Jordon, David Starr, 1851-1931 Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Maynard, Washburn, 1844- Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909 Morris, William Gouverneur, d. 1884 Petroff, Ivan, b. 1842 Townsend, Charles Haskins, 1859-1944 True, Frederick William, 1858-1914 Brice, John J Stejneger, Leonhard, 1851-1943 United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Special Agents Division

Subjects: Bering Sea controversy Sealing Fisheries

Publisher: Washington : Govt. Printing Office

Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library

Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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grounds, to take their places on thebreeding grounds, which are old enough for that purpose: or will be oldenough, if not disturbed by man, even if left alone for the next fiveyears. (4) Meanwhile the natural enemies of the fur seal are just as numer-ous in the sea and ocean as they ever were. The killer whale and thesharks are feeding upon them, just as they did in 1872-1874. (5) Therefore, we have destroyed by land and by sea, that equilibriumwhich nature had established in 1868, on these rookeries, and we mustnow restore it: or, no other result can,follow save that of swift extermi-nation. (6) That condition of 1872 being restored: then, that surplus male lifemust he taken again under better regulations than those of 1870: and thepelagic sealing must he restricted to proper limits: this action will enablethe fur markets of the world to have a regular supjDly for all time tocome, provided that it is carried out in good time. See terms of such regulations, p. 228, Appendix. Plate 19.

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SECTION 11. THE HAULING GROUNDS OF THE FUR SEAL ON THE PRIBILOV ISLANDS OF ALASKA—THEIR AREA, POSITION, AND CONDITION IN 1872-1874 AND 1890. THE HAULINa GROUNDS OF THE FUR SEAL. In 1872-1874 these fields of seal life on the Pribilov Islands were inthemselves quite as impressive and interesting as the great rookeriesthen were. To day (1890) it is a dilficult matter to say where a singlewell-defined hauling ground on either island exists of more than slightextent in superficial area—those broad acres of 1874 upon which not evena vestige of vegetable growth could live, owing to the tireless pattering offur-seal flippers—those clean-swept fields are now mossy, grass-grown,and flecked with indigenous flowering plants clear down to the watersedge, or up to verymargins of the rookery grounds, upon which a scantyremnant of that swarmiug host of surplus male seal life, which so aston-ished me ill 1872, now lands! It hauls there to-day for quiet and protec-tion—instinctively does so, as

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