ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES 



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On St. Paul Island the payments to natives in 1937 were at the 

 rate of 60 cents per skin for the 44,068 sealskins taken, or a total of 

 $26,440.80, and in addition $180 was paid to two foremen and four 

 mess attendants. 



Natives on St. George Island were paid at the rate of 75 cents per 

 skin, the total in 1937 amounting to $8,334 for the 11,112 sealskins 

 taken, with an additional payment of $100 to two native foremen. 



Details of these payments are shown in the following table: 



Payments to Pribilof Islands natives for taking fur-seal skins, calendar year 1937 



PAYMENTS FOR TAKING FOXSKINS 



For taking foxskins on the Pribilof Islands in the 1936-37 season 

 the natives were paid at the rate of $5 per skin. The total payments 

 amounted to $530 for the 106 foxskins taken on St. Paul Island and 

 $4,530 for the 906 skins taken on St. George Island, a total of $5,060. 



FUR SEALS 

 KILLINGS 



In 1937, 55,180 fur seals were killed, of which 44,068 were taken on 

 St. Paul Island and 11,112 on St. George Island. Details in regard 

 to the killings are shown in the following tabulations: 



Seal killings on Pribilof Islands in 1937 

 ST. PAUL ISLAND 



Hauling ground 



Skins 

 secured 



Sea Lion Rock (Sivutch) 



Reef 



Zapadni 



Reef and Gorbatch 



Polovina and Little Polovina 



Vostochni and Morjovl 



Zapadni and Little Zapadni.. 

 Tolstoi, Lukanin, and Kitovi 



Reef and Gorbatch , 



Polovina and Little Polovina, 



Vostochni and Morjovi 



Zapadni and Little Zapadni.. 

 Tolstoi, Lukanin, and Kitovi. 

 Reef and Gorbatch 



49 



148 



223 



648 



155 



562 



349 



105 



1,023 



288 



1,148 



1,206 



422 



901 



