ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES 175 
Summary of Government-owned fur-seal skins in the custody of Fouke Fur Co., at 
St. Louis, Mo., calendar year 1939 



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Jan. 1 in 1939 in 1939 Dec. 31 
Taken on Pribilof Islands: 
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United States’ share of Japanese fur-seal skins: 
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aut nese 19,832 were sold; 15 were used by the U. S. Bureau of Standards in making tests; 19 were shipped 
to Washington. 
2 Includes the Canadian share of sealskins which were in custody of the Fouke Fur Co. and which the 
Canadian Government subsequently authorized to be handled with skins of the United States, appropriate 
distribution to be made of the net proceeds of sales. 
SHIPMENT AND SALE OF FOX SKINS 
The 219 blue and 5 white fox skins taken on St. Paul Island and the 
799 blue and 6 white fox skins taken on St. George Island in the season 
of 1938-39 were shipped from the islands on the Penguin, sailing on 
March 18. The vessel reached Seattle on March 31, and the fox skins 
were forwarded by express to the Department’s selling agents at St. 
Louis, Mo. 
At the public auction sale in St. Louis on May 22, 1939, 424 blue 
fox skins of the 1937-38 season’s take were sold for $6,157.50, an 
average of $14.52 per skin. The maximum price was $46, obtained for 
one fine silvery pelt sold singly, and for each of 2 No. I light silvery 
pelts sold in another lot. 
On October 2, 1939, there were sold at public auction at St. Louis 
512 blue and 11 white fox skins taken on the Pribilof Islands in the 
1938-39 season. The blue pelts brought $8,546, an average price of 
$16.69; and the white pelts brought $1438, or $13 each. The maximum 
price per skin was $62, obtained for 2 No. I silvery pelts. 
FUR-SEAL PATROL 
UNITED States Coast GUARD 
Vessels of the Coast Guard were again assigned by the Treasury 
Department to patrol waters along the route of the Alaska fur seals 
during their northward migration to the Pribilof Islands. Ten cutters 
and patrol vessels were instrumental in enforcing the laws and regula- 
tions for the protection of fur seals and sea otters in the North Pacific 
and Bering Sea. 
On March 15 the cutter Onondaga began the regular seal patrol of 
the Oregon and Washington coasts from Yaquina Head northward to 
the Strait of Juan de Fuca. A preliminary cruise had been made 
by this vessel off Columbia River prior to March 15, during which 5 
seals were sighted. Many small boats were boarded at sea during the 
patrol but no evidence of pelagic sealing was found. The seal patrol 
activities of the Onondaga were continued until its return to Astoria on 
April 1. During the same period the patrol boat Atalanta operated 
out of Neah Bay, patrolling the Strait of Juan de Fuca and western 
