216 DESCRIPTION OF IMPORTANT FISHERIES AND THEIR PRODUCTS 



able hand labor is needed to butcher and bone the carcasses. Experimental 

 killing has been concentrated on large males which are more efficient to 

 handle than smaller animals. The price of meat in 1959 was ten cents a 

 pound. 



Hair seals are taken off Greenland, Newfoundland, Laborador, the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence, Jan Alayen, and Novaya Zemlya, and in the White 

 Sea, Caspian Sea, Okhotsk Sea, and Lake Baikal. The harp seal (Pagophi- 

 lus groenlandicus) is the most important species taken in the North 

 Atlantic. Over 200,000 harp seals were taken in 1954 off Newfoundland 

 and 60,000 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 19532. 



A small industry based on the oil of the southern elephant seal, Miro- 

 unga teonina, is located on South Georgia Island in the Falkland Island 

 Dependencies^ 



Walrus may not be taken commercially, although Eskimos sell ivory 

 carvings and a small number of bull skins for the manufacture of buffing 

 wheels. 



LITERATURE CITED 



1. Dassow, J. A., Com. Fisheries Rev., .18, No. 1, 5(1956). 



2. Fisher, H. D., "Utilization of Atlantic harp seal populations," Washington, 



Transactions of the Twentieth North American Wildlife Conference, Wildlife 

 Management Institute, 1956. 



3. Laws, R. M., Norwegian Whaling Gazette 49, No. 10, 466, 49; No. 11, 520(1960). 



4. Thorsteinson, F. V., Nelson, R. W., and Lall, D. F., "Experimental harvest of the 



Steller sea lion in Alaskan Waters," Washington, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

 Special Scientific Report — Fisheries No. 371 (1961). 



