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want to protect them. I would like to see the islands protected from 

 raids, and the Bering Sea also. 



Q. Do you think that the Bering Sea should be Frank Moreau, p. 469. 

 entirely closed ? — A. Certainly. 



I think that pelagic seal hunting in Bering Sea Wm. H. Smith, p. 478. 

 should be stopped. 



Q. In order to preserve the seals, do you think it absolutely neces- 

 sary to stop all killing in the waters of the Ber- 

 ing Sea? — A. Yes, sir; I think it absolutely nee- Gustave Sundvall, p. 

 essary, in order to protect the seals, to stop all 481. 

 killing of cows in the Bering Sea. 



The preservation of the rookeries requires the suppression of pelagic 

 sealing, at least in the Bering Sea, and in the im- 

 mediate vicinity of the passes. z - L ' Tanner > p ' m ' 



I think if pelagic hunting was stopped in Bering Sea that seal would 

 become plentiful along the coast of southern 



Alaska, and we Indians could again catch plenty 27( f • Thlkahdeynahkee, p. 

 of them with a spear, which is a much better way 

 to capture seal than by shooting them with shotguns, for none are lost 

 when struck with a spear. 



I think if pelagic hunting is not stopped in Ber- ^ Charlie Tlaksatan, p. 

 ing Sea the seal will soon become exterminated. 270, 



Think that all pelagic seal-hunting should be stopped in Bering 

 Sea in order to keep the seal from being exter- 

 minated Rudolph Walton, p. 273. 



Under Bussian rule there were many years of faulty management, 

 and at one time much danger of extermination of 

 seal life at these islands, but in time the company c. A. Williams, p. 545. 

 came to regard seal life with so good an eye to 



preservation and perpetuation that their rules and regulations in re- 

 gard to these points are still in force on the islands; but, while they 

 permitted free navigation throughout Bering Sea, they sternly pro- 

 hibited any interference with seal life in the waters thereof, and so the 

 United States Government will be forced to do if it would preserve and 

 perpetuate its present splendid property. 



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A zone of 30, 40, or 50 miles about the islands in which sealing is pro- 

 hibited would be of little or no protection, as the 

 females, during the breeding season, after their chas. Bryant, p. 9. 

 pups are born, wander at intervals over Bering 



Sea in search of food. But to suppose an impossibility, even if such a 

 zone could protect seal life, it would be impossible, on account of the 

 atmosphere being so constantly foggy and misty, to prevent vessels 

 from crossing an imaginary line drawn at such a distance from and 

 about the Pribilof Islands. 



