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Keport of the United States Bering Sea Commissioners— Continued. 



Bering Sea sealing season 365 



Catch of sealing vessels 3G5 



Indiscriminate killing 366 



Percentage of females in catch 367 



Letter of C. M. Lampson &Co 367-368 



Opinion of Sir George Baden-Powell 369 



The Loudon Trade Sales 369 



Waste of life 369-370 



Great numbers wounded 370 



Percentage of seals lost 370-371 



Growth of pelagic sealing 371-372 



Comparison of sealing on land and at sea 372-373 



Decrease of herd caused by pelagic sealing 373-374 



Prohibition of pelagic sealing necessary 374 



Limited protection inadequate 374 



A zone of prohibition inadequate , 374-37.5 



Discrimination by pelagic sealers impossible 375 



Impossible to maintain a zone 376 



A close season 376 



But it must practically prohibit 376 



Other remedies of no avail 375-377 



Prof. W. H. Flower 377 



Progress of extermination 377-378 



Raids on the rookeries 378 



Comparison of raids and pelagic sealing 378 



Eecommendation as to management of islands 278-379 



Summary 379 



Conclusions 379 ' 



Seals have decreased - 379 



Decrease caused by pelagic sealing 379 



Suppress pelagic sealing 380 



Appendix A: 



Seals sink when hilled in the water 881 



Hair-seals 381 



Fur-seals 381-382 



Hair-seals 382 



Autartic fur-seals 382 



Hair-seals 382-383 



Reason seals sink 383 



Appendix B: 



Dates of arrivals of fur-seal at Frihilof Islands 1S72-1S91 385 



First arrival of bulls, cows, and pups at St. Paul Island, Bering Sea, 



1872-1891, inclusive (from the official record) 385 



First arrival of bulls, cows, and pups at St. George Island, Bering Sea, 



1871-1891, inclusive (from the official record) , 886 



