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exlianstecl."^ John Morris, a sealer of experi- Opinions of pe- 

 lagic sealers. 



ence, already mentioned, says: "With the pres- 

 ent increasino: fleet of sealing- vessels the seal 

 herd will soon become exterminated unless some 

 restrictions are placed upon pelagic sealing-."^ 

 William H. Long, who ha.s been a hunter, a mate, 

 and a captain on sealing vessels, says : "I think if 

 something is not done to protect seals in the North 

 Pacific and Bering Sea they will become exter- 

 minated in a very few years." ^ Caleb Lindahl, 

 who has sealed both in arctic and antarctic seas, 

 says: "If they keep on hunting them in the 

 Bering Sea and the North Pacific, in the same ' 

 way they have done in the last few years, they 

 will exterminate them in the same way [as in 

 the southern seas], because most all the seals 

 killed are females."* To these statements might 

 be added many others of those experienced in 

 open-sea sealing.^ 



Tlie certainty of extermination of the herd if opinions of in- 

 not protected is also set forth by many of the 

 Indian hunters, whose long experience and care- 

 ful observation of the condition of the migrating 

 ' Vol. II, p. •342. ~~ ■ 



2 Vol. II, p. 340. 



n^ol. II, p. 458. 



••Vol. II, p. 456. 



ii Thomas Gibson, Vol. II, p. 432; A J. Hoffman, Vol. II, p. 447; 

 F. F. Feeney, Vol. II, p. 220; Luther T. Franklin, Vol. II, p. 426; 

 O. Holm, Vol, II, p. 368; Martin Benson, Vol. II, p. 406. 



