152 MANAGEMENT OF THE SEAL ROOKERIES. 



Protectiou of Government officer."^ And Mr. C. L. Fowler, 



feuiales. 



wlio has been employed on tlie islands since 1879, 

 says that nothing offends the natives quicker than 

 to have a female killed.^ With the cooperation 

 of the natives, who alone do the driving- and kill- 

 ing-, violation of this regulation is impossible. 

 Another evidence of the strictness with which 

 this rule is enforced is the testimony of furriers 

 to the fact that the skins of female seals are never 

 seen among those taken on the Pribilof Islands.^ 

 The kiiiabie The class of scals allowcd to be killed are the 



class. 



nonbreeding males from one to hve years of 

 age which ''haul out upon the hauling grounds 

 remote from the breeding grounds."* The 

 handling of this class of seals because of their 

 separation from the ''breeders" causes the least 

 possible disturbance to the seals on the breeding 

 grounds.^ 

 Disturbance of Besidcs this the most stringent rules have 



breediug seals. 



been and are enforced by the Government to 

 prevent any disturbance of the breeding seals.^ 

 Capt. W. C. Coulson, of the United States 



» Vol. II, p. 103. 



2 Vol. II, p. 25. 



' G. C. Lampson, Vol. II, p. 565. See also favorable comment on 

 tlio wisdom of this regulation in "Handbook of the Fisheries of 

 New Zealand," p. 236. 



* J. Stanley Brown, Vol. II, p. 16; T. F. Morgan, Vol. II, p. 62. 



M. Stanley Brown, Vol. II, p. 16 ; Daniel Webster, Vol. II, p. 183. 



6 Charles Bryant, Vol. II, p. 8; S. N. Buyuitsky, Vol. II, p. 22. 



