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FUR SEALS 



QUOTAS FOR KILLING AND RESERVING 



Plans for sealing operations in 1931, as approved by the Depart- 

 ment of Commerce, provided for the marking of a breeding reserve of 

 about five thousand 3-year-old male fur seals, divided between St. 

 Paul Island and St. George Island in approximately the ratio of 4 to 1, 

 and the kilUng of as many of the remaining males of this age as could 

 be secured in the regular sealing periods. Provision was made for 

 increasing the reserve if counts of the idle and harem bulls in the 

 breeding season indicated the advisabiUty of such action. As some of 

 the 3-year-old males are never taken up in the drives the number of 

 animals remaining for the reserve is always greater than the number 

 marked. 



KILLINGS 



In 1931, 49,524 fur seals were killed, of which 39,964 were taken 

 on St. Paul Island and 9,560 on St. George Island. Details in regard 

 to the killings are shown in the following tabulations : 



Seal killings on Pribilof Islands in 1931 

 ST. PAUL ISLAND 



Date 



July 



June 8 

 11 

 16 

 17 

 19 

 20 

 21 

 22 

 23 

 24 

 25 

 26 

 27 

 28 

 29 

 30 

 1 

 2 

 3 

 5 

 6 

 7 



10 

 11 

 12 

 13 

 14 

 15 

 16 

 17 

 18 

 19 

 20 

 21 

 22 

 23 

 24 

 25 

 26 

 29-30 



Serial 

 No. of 

 drive 



Hauling ground 



Sea Lion Rock (Sivutch) 



Reef and Gorbatch 



Tolstoi _ 



Zapadni _ 



Reef and Gorbatch. 



Polovina and Little Polovina 



Vostochni and Morjovi 



Tolstoi, Lukanin, and Kitovi.. 



Zapadni and Little Zapadni 



Reef and Gorbatch 



Polovina and Little Polovina 



Vostochni and Morjovi 



Tolstoi, Lukanin, and Kitovi 



Zapadni and Little Zapadni 



Reef and Gorbatch 



Polovina and Little Polovina 



Vostochni and Morjovi _. 



Tolstoi, Lukanin, and Kitovi 



Zapadni and Little Zapadni 



Reef and Gorbatch 



Polovina and Little Polovina.. 



Vostochni and Morjovi 



Tolstoi, Lukanin, and Kitovi 



Zapadni and Little Zapadni 



Reef and Gorbatch 



Polovina and Little Polovina 



Vostochni and Morjovi 



Tolstoi, Lukanin, and Kitovi... 



Zapadni and Little Zapadni 



Reef and Gorbatch 



Polovina and Little Polovina 



Tolstoi, Lukanin, and Kitovi 



Vostochni and Morjovi. 



Zapadni and Little Zapadni 



Reef and Gorbatch 



Polovina and Little Polovina 



Vostochni and Morjovi 



Tolstoi, Lukanin, and Kitovi 



Zapadni and Little Zapadni 



Reef and Gorbatch 



Polovina and I^ittle Polovina 



Skins from seals that died as a result of reserving operations. 



Skins 

 secured 



113 

 119 

 68 

 296 

 127 

 688 

 165 

 433 



1,456 

 124 



1,041 

 451 

 807 



2,040 

 207 



1,090 

 525 

 996 



2,167 

 645 



1,552 

 921 



1,993 



2,407 

 670 



1,942 



1,020 



1,538 



3,178 

 236 

 752 



2,292 

 940 



1,907 

 708 



1,170 

 599 

 637 



1,429 



420 



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