U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



services. The natives were divided into classes according to their 

 ability and work, and payments were made as follows : 



Payments to St. Paul natives for sealing operations, calendar year 1922. 



St. George Island. — For the 5,121 skins taken on St. George 

 Island in the calendar year 1922 the resident natives received 50 

 cents per skin, and in addition two foremen received an aggregate 

 of $100 for special services. As on St. Paul Island payments were 

 made in accordance with rated ability and work. 



Payments to St. George natives for sealing operations, calendar year 1922. 



PAYMENTS FOK TAKING FOX SKINS. 



The natives of the Pribilof Islands are paid $5 for each fox skin 

 taken. The take in the trapping season of 1921-22 was 159 on St. 

 Paul Island and 574 on St. George Island, a total of 733, which 

 accordingly yielded the St. Paul natives $795 and the St. George 

 natives $2,870, a total of $3,G65. On St. Paul Island the foxes are 

 caught in steel traps, set at various places. Each native who partici- 

 pates in the trapping looks after a definite number of traps and 

 receives $5 for each skin that he secures. On St. George Island no 

 steel traps are used, and since almost all the fox skins taken are 

 secured from foxes that enter the corral at the village trapping- 

 house the work is necessarily a joint operation on the part of those 

 participating. Consequently, the total payment for skins taken on 

 St. George Island is divided among the workmen in accordance with 

 what is considered the proper share of each. The funds for making 

 the payments are advanced by the Fouke Fur Co., which recovers the 

 outlay from the jaroceecls of sales of skins. 



FUR-SEAL HERD. 

 QUOTA FOR KILLING. 



On May 25, 1922, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce approved 

 the bureau's recommendation that the quota of seals to be killed in 

 the calendar year 1922 should be 25,000 three-year-old males. Of 

 this number 21,500 were assigned as the St. Paul Island quota and 



