228 PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION. 



Concuneuco of Atlantic from extermination, but that otlier na- 



uatious. . 



tions have united and concuiTed in the same 

 protection. 

 White Sea regu- Stringent resTulations have also been adopted 



latious. & o ^ J- ^ 



by Russia for the protection of the hair-seals in 

 the Gulf of Mezen, a part of the White Sea, the 

 greater portion of which is beyond the three- 

 mile limit. All sealing is subject to the super- 

 vision of public overseers, who have authority 

 to determine the time at which the annual catch 

 is to begin at certain designated places, and to 

 preserve order during the continuance of sealing 

 operations, as to which the law contains certain 

 prohibitions.^ 

 Caspian Sea reg- The scalerics in that portion of the Caspian 



alatious. ■*■ 



Sea which belongs to Russia are under the con- 

 trol of a "Bureau of Fishing and Sealing Indus- 

 tries," which is charged with a general supervision 

 of the sealeries, and the enforcement of the law, 

 which contains regulations for a close season, a 

 license fee, and prohibition of killing or disturb- 

 ance during the breeding time.^ 

 Fur-seal protec- Similar enactments protect the fur-seal in other 



tion by other na- 



tious- portions of the world, as other nations have 



recognized how indispensable to the preservation 

 of the fur-seal species is the prohibition of un- 

 licensed and unlimited sealing The Lobos 



' Code of Russian Laws, 1886, and map of area, Vol. I, \^. 445. 



