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killed on the second trip are females, and many Newfound land 



rcgulatious. 



at that time are shot in the water and sink before 

 they can be recovered.^ 



Next in importance to the Newfoundland hair- /f.'i Mayemcg- 

 seal region is that in the Atlantic Ocean east of 

 Greenland, and known as the Jan Mayen Seal 

 Fishery. This region in the open sea is em- 

 braced in the area lying between the parallels 

 of 67° and 75° north latitude and the meridians 

 of 5° east and 17° west longitude from Green- 

 wich. These fisheries were made the subject of 

 legislative regulation, applicable to their own 

 subjects, by the Governments of Great Britain, 

 Sweden and Norway, Russia, Germany, and 

 Holland, by a series of statutes passed by these 

 several countries during the years 1875, 1876, 

 1877, and 1878.' The 3d of April is estabhshed 

 as the earliest date each year on which the seals 

 could be legally captured, and penalties are fixed 

 for a violation of the prohibition. 



It will thus be seen that not only Great Britain Concnnouce of 



natioDS. 



and her colonies have found it necessary to pro- 

 tect by legislation the hair-seal of the North 



' James G. Joy, Vol. II, p. 591; Richard Pike, Vol. II, p. 592. 



2 "TheSealFishery Act, 1875," 38 Vict., c. 18; British Order 

 iu Council of Nov. 28, 1876 ; Law of Sweden and Norway of May 

 18, 1876; Ordinance of Norway of Oct. 28, 1876; Ordinance of 

 Sweden of Nov. 30, 1876; Law of Germany of Dec. 4, 1876; Ordi- 

 nance of Germany of Mar. 29, 1877 ; Law of the Netherlands of 

 Dec. 31, 1876; Decree of the Netherlands of Feb. 5, 1877; Law of 

 Russia of Dec. 1878: Sec. 223 of Russian Code of Laws, 1886. 



