Foreign Training 



The establishment of a Foreign Train- 

 ing Office in Seattle in 1959 made the 

 Pacific Northwest a worldwide center for 

 training fishery people. The ever-increas- 

 ing number of foreign visitors is aiding 

 Bureau personnel to make valuable con- 

 tacts for the exchange of scientific fishery 

 information with many foreign nations. 



Right. A Korean trainee learns statistical 

 techniques used in biological research 

 from a skilled researcher. 



Fur Seal Management % Research 



Once nearly exterminated by fur hunters, the fur seal herds of the Pribilof Islands are now approaching 

 their peak abundance under the research and management of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, whose 

 success with the seals is an outstanding example of conservation in action. 



The United States netted about $1 ,500,000 annually from its share of the seal pelts during the last 1 5 

 years. Japan and Canada receive shares of the seal pelts taken by the United States under the provisions 

 of the Interim Convention on Conservation of North Pacific Fur Seals. The Soviet Union is also a partici- 

 pating nation under this Convention. The island byproducts plant has a seasonal output of about 350 tons 

 of seal meal and 50,000 gallons of seal oil. The Bureau, in its Pribilof Islands Program, provides for the 

 health, education, and welfare of about 600 Aleut resident natives. 



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Left. At Polovina Rookery on 

 St. Paul Island, Alaska, well- 

 defined fur seal harem — a bull, 

 cows, and pups — may be seen in 

 the foreground. On the skyline 

 is a runway and tripod, used when 

 taking a census of the harem bulls 

 and for general observation of 

 seal life. 



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