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CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



limiting-, fishing, and navigating in the waters of the North 

 Pacific, including* Behring ^?ea. 

 H. K., Ex.Doc. Schooners from British Columbia wore fishing for cod as 

 m sc4"^^*'"^" early as 18G6, and seals to the number of 20,000 a year 

 were reported as being- taken south of St. George and St. 

 Paul Islands in 1870 and 1872. 



WHALING INDUSTRY. 



Fishery imius- HO Whalcrs coiitinucd as before to frequent the 



iTiift^a stites*! waters both east and west of the line described in 



1887, sec. 5, vol. ^hc treaty of 1867. The extent of their operations appears 

 "' ^' ^' from the following table, which shows the number of ves- 



sels composing the Korth Pacific whaling lleet after the 

 date of the Alaska Cession.* 



WALRU.S HUNTING. 



tiTJf^^oV^t^he ^^alrus hunting is also known to have been continuously 

 United States, practiced by the whalers during these years, and in some 

 part 17' pp^'313 yearslarge quantities of walrus ivory and oil were obtained : 



*^- The Arctic Avhaliu;;- ileet from 1870 to 1880, iucln.sive, i.s estimated 



to have captured 100,000 walrus, i)roducinjij 1,996,000 gallons of oil 

 and 398,868 pounds of ivory, of a total value of 1,260,000 dollars. 



SEAL lIUNTINCi. 



H.R.,Ex.Doc. In 1872 expeditions for sealing in Behring- Sea -svere 



44th ^cong. \^gt I'eported to be fitting out in various places, as appears from 



'^Sess. ' Mr. Pheli)s' letter of the 25th March in that year, already 



quoted, and in 1875 a schooner was reported as having 



r been seen shooting seals among the seal islands. 



Ivan Petrolf, Si)ecial Commissioner of the United States 

 to the seal islands in the year 1880, says in his l\ei)ort: 



H. K., Ex. Doc. As these seals pass up and down the coast as far as the Straits of 



No. 40, 46tbyuea and tlie mouth of Columbia River, (|uite a number of them are 



Cong., 3rd Sess. ggcured by hnnters, who shoot or spear them as they liud them asleep 



' ' at sea. Also, sniiill vessels are Htted out in San Francisco, which 



regularly cruise in the.se waters for the i)uri)ose alone of shooting 



sleeping seal. 



*An vessels not sailing under the United States flag are siiecified in 

 this table as " foreign." 



