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Index to report of Behring Sea Commission, etc. — Continued. 



Paragraph. 



Pago. 



Kegnlations (smoIso Protecti\'o Measures) — Continued. 



International co-operation necessary 



May arrest decrease 



Methods of carrying out 



Mutual concessions necessary 



Should be based on industrial as well as physical require- 

 ments 



Specific scheme of, recommended 



Various suggestions for 



Kitles, use of, in pelagic sealing, should be prohibited 



Kobbeu Island — 



Destruction of seals on, by Alaska Commercial Company . . . 



Means taken by Russian Government for protection of 



Migration routes of seals frequenting 



Kaids on : 



Rookeries — 



Area of (see Area of Rookeries). 



Features of 



Former extent of 



Necessary conditions for, exist elsewliere 



Not necessarily limited in area 



On Bebring Island, North and South 



On Copper Island 



On St. George Island (Great Eastern, Little Eastern, North, 

 Starry Arteel, and Zapadnie) 



On St. Paul Island (Lagoon, Lukannon and Ketavie, North- 

 East Point, Polavina, Reef, Tolstoi, and Zapadnie) 



Protection of, better on Commander than Pribylotf Islands. 



Reports as to condition of, unsatisfactory 



Should not be disturbed 



Smell of 



Russia — 



Increase of seals on Pribyloff Islands under rule of 



Interests of, in sealing industry , 



Management of Commander Islands by 



Precautions against raids by 



Robben Island protected by 



8. 

 San Francisco — 



Reply to inquiries made at 



Sealing fleet 



Scarcity of seals {see Killing on Islands) — 



Due to over-killing of males 



Sea-cow — 



Extermination of 



Former abundance of 



Seal Fisheries — 



Argentine Republic 



Australian 



Cajje of Good Hope 



Chilean 



Falkland Islands 



Lobos Islands 



New Zealand 



South Shetland 



Sealing at Sea (see Pelagic Sealing). 

 Sealing Fleet — 



British Columbian 



U n i t e (1 S t a t e s 



Sealing Industry {see also Interests involved) — 



Capital eniidoyed in 



Former and present condition of 



German, Japanese, Russian, and United States interest in .. 



Interests on sea and shore 



Number of men employed in 



Seal Islands — ■ 



Flourishing condition of when ceded by Russia 



Sealing on Islands — 



Parity of interests with sealing at sea 



Suggested improvements in methods 



Seal life- 

 Becoming more j>elagie 



Conditions of, on breeding-islands 



Disturbance of, greater in recent years 



Evidence as to conditions of 



Fluctuations in number 



General conditions of 



Gradual diminution of, on islands 



Natural conditions interfered with 



Should bo studied atJsea as well as on land 



1G9, 170 

 94 

 162 

 102 



100 

 155-161 



130 

 150, 656 



513 

 515-517 



203 

 510, 513 



258-260 



273 



276 



272 



266, 267 



268, 269 



257 



53 

 148 

 271 



41,42 



103 



72, 722 



767 



515-517 



470 

 471 



877 

 869, 889 

 885, 887 

 878, 879 

 882, 884 



876 

 892-894 

 872, 873 



600 

 600 



103 

 102, 103 

 111,112 



126 

 147, 148 



85 



277-283 



396 



52, 53, 56 



33 



26-34 



701 



34 



15 



179 

 200 



205 

 200 



