OTHER SEAL HERDS. 225 



having' fixed habitations on the hind, to which Capo of Good 



Hope. 



tliey reguLarly resort.^ 



But Great Britain and its dependencies do not British protec- 



tiou of liair-scal. 



limit their governmental protection to the fur-seal ; 

 it is extended to all varieties of seals, wherever 

 they resort to British territorial waters, and they 

 have thrown about them upon the high seas the 

 guardianship of British statutes. In certain of the 

 waters of the North Atlantic are found the hair- 

 seal, of much less commercial value tlian the fur- 

 seal, and to whose existence the land is not a neces- 

 sity, as the young may be, and usually are, born 

 and reared on the ice ; and yet these seals are under 

 the special protection of British laws. Canadian 

 statutes prohibit all persons, without prescribing 

 any marine limit, from disturbing or injuring all 

 sedentary seal fisheries during the time of fishing 

 for seals, or from hindering or frightening the 

 shoals of seals as they enter the fishery. They 

 also forbid the use of explosives to kill seals.^ 



The most important hair-seal reg-ion of the Ne^fiinndiaiK] 



•^ ~ regulatious. 



world is found on the ice floes to the eastward of 

 Newfoundland, often several hundred miles from 

 the coast.^ This region has been for many years 



• An examination of the "Handboot of the Fisnes of New Zea- 

 land" (pp. 230-233) will show that the fur-seal frequenting those 

 islands ia similar in habits to the Alaskan fur-seal in nearly every 

 particular. 



- Revised Statutes of Canada, c.95,Secs. 6and7 ; Vol.I,pp.441, 454. 



3 Allen, ''Monograph of North American Pinnipeds," page 234, 

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