ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1920, 73 
The officers and crew of the /ider deserve commendation for mak- 
ing hazardous trips to the islands during the winter season and at 
times of the year when no vessel ever before was at the Pribilofs. 
DEPARTMENTAL ORDER REGARDING VISITING OF FUR-SEAL ROOKERIES. 
For the purpose of definitely regulating the movements of persons 
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temporarily or otherwise present at the Pribilof Islands, the follow- 
ing order was issued by the Secretary of Commerce on March 2, 
1920, and the regulations therein were put into effect at the islands 
during the summer of 1920: 
Section 2938, Compiled Laws of Alaska, 1913, provides that it shall be unlaw- 
ful for any person to land or remain on any of the Pribilof Islands, except 
through stress of weather or like unavoidable cause or by authority of the 
Secretary of Commerce. 
In order that the interests of the Government may be properly served jn the 
matter of protecting the fur-seal rookeries from unnecessary disturbance and 
in the matter of avoiding the driving of hauling-ground seals into the water, 
the following regulations are hereby promulgated: 
1. Persons lawfully landing, whether to remain temporarily or otherwise, 
must confine themselves to their lawful activities, and any visiting of rookeries 
or hauling grounds of seals or sea lions must first be authorized by the Depart- 
ment’s agents in charge. 
2. In order that persons authorized or permitted to land may have an oppor- 
tunity to observe seal life, the Department’s agents in charge will provide 
escorts, when practicable, to accompany interested persons to proper observa- 
tion points. No side digressions from the designated observation points will be 
permitted. There will be no visiting of rookeries except under such escorts. 
On St. Paul Island the usual observation point for persons temporarily present 
shall be what are commonly known as “ Observation Rocks” at Gorbatch 
rookery. 
3. Persons authorized to land at St. Paul Island, whether to remain tem- 
porarily or otherwise, are required, except under circumstances specifically 
authorized by the Department’s agent in charge, to remain on that portion of the 
island in and about the village of St. Paul which is bounded by the shore line, 
including that of the salt lagoon and its outlet, and two straight lines running 
approximately as follows: The first from the shore at Black Bluffs to the 
southerly portion of the salt lagoon, passing to the eastward of the natives’ 
cemetery, the natives’ wells, and the by-products plant; the second to cut 
across the isthmus at Zolotoi Sands. The land lines as described will be indi- 
cated by notices posted at suitable intervals. 
4. Any person willfully violating these regulations will be regarded as a 
trespasser and will be required to leave the islands at the first opportunity, 
or will be subject to such other action as may be deemed appropriate. 
The above rules have become necessary primarily because of the 
great importance of nondisturbance of hauling ground seals during 
the few weeks of active commercial sealing when a thoughtless intru- 
sion upon the seals of that class might mean a large financial loss 
to the United States. The unnecessary disturbance of seals on 
their breeding areas is also quite undesirable. Signs designating 
the limits of the unrestricted district in the vicinity of the village 
were posted on St. Paul Island, and on St. George Island a definite 
observation point was selected and marked where visitors, under 
escort, might see the rookery life without disturbing seals of any 
class. 
CONSTRUCTION WORK. 
Considerable construction. work has been accomplished at the Pri- 
bilofs during the year. On St. Paul Island a new salt house was com- 
