CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



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STATISTICS OF UNITED STATES WHALING 

 INDUSTRY. 



NORTH PACIFIC GKOUNDS, INCLUDING OKHOTSK AND BEHRING SEAS 

 AND ARCTIC OCEAN.) 



The growth and decline of the whaling industry during ^'^'l^^^yi^^i^"^^ 

 the years discussed in this chapter may be conveniently united states,"' 

 illustrated by the following table, which shows the number |^5' '^°'' "• pp- 

 of United States vessels in tlie North Pacific whaling fleet 

 from 1841 to 1867. It is taken from " The Fishery Indus- 

 tries of the United States," 1887, section 5, vol. ii, pp. 84-85. 



(This list does not include whalers of other nationalities.) 



WALRUS HUNTING. 



The whaling vessels frequenting Behring Sea and the ibid., p.su. 

 Arctic Ocean, from the first, engaged to a certain extent in 

 walrus hunting, and about 18G0 sucli hunting began to be 

 an important secondary object with the whalers. In sub- 

 sequent years many thousand barrels of walrus oil and 



great quantities of skins and ivory were secured. 

 90 The facts stated in this chapter establish — 



That from the year 1821 to the year 1807 the rights 

 of navigation and fishing in the waters of Behring Sea 

 were freely exercised by the vessels of the United States, 

 Great Britain, and other foreign nations, and were recog- 

 nized as existing by Eussia; 



That the waters of Behring Sea were treated by Eussia 

 as being subject to the provisions of the Treaties of 1824 

 and 1825. 



