508 ALASKAN HERD. 



There can be no question that if the seals are not protected, and this 

 tremendous slaughter that is now going' on in the 

 495. Wiihams, p. sea ig not i mme di a tely stopped, there will be a to- 



tal destruction of the herd in a very short while. 

 I suppose that if everyone could kill seal in the Bering in a few years 

 Theo. '/'. Williams, quot- the seal would all be dead except the males, and 

 ing Capt. Olsen, p. 505. in time the seals would be exterminated. 



MEANS NECESSARY. 

 Page 250 of The Case. 



The maintenance of the birthrate, the vital and essential element in 



the preservation and perpetuation of the herd, re- 



Bcport of American qn j res the preservation of the whole of the class 



Commissioners, p. ool o/ , M i- \o i i m i n t •> 



The Ca86t ' L J ot breeding temales, while only a small number of 



virile males are necessary or at all concerned in 

 the matter. 



This is the great essential difference between the importance of the 

 life of the female and that of the male to the conservation of the herd, 

 and it is the fundamental proposition on which hangs the solution of 

 the whole problem. 



ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION OF PELAGIC SEALING. 



Page 251 of The Case. 



If the destruction of seals at sea is wholly suppressed it will result 



in restoring the rookeries to their former produc- 



W. C. AUis,p. 99. tiveness. But no partial measure of protection 



should be undertaken, because it can not to be 



enforced. 



N. W. Andersen, p. 223. For the preservation of seal life pelagic hunt- 

 ing should be stopped. 



Andrew Anderson, p. I believe that in order to preserve fur-seal life 

 218. pelagic hunting should be stopped absolutely. 



C. E. Anderson, p. 206. And am of the opinion that if such sealing were 

 absolutely suppressed the species would again in- 

 crease. 



JoMny Baronovitch, p. I think if the schooners were all stopped from 

 276. hunting seal they would become plentiful once 



more, and the Indians could catch them as they 

 used to. 



Wilton C. Bennett, p. I think that all pelagic hunting should be 

 357. stopped, so that seal would have a chance to in- 



crease. 



I think schooners should be prohibited from hunting seal in the 

 North Pacific Ocean to give them a chance to iu- 

 Edward Benson, p. 278. crease again. 



