254 PROTECTION AND PEESERVATION. 



A close season. Sticklaiid, froiii May 1 to September 15 ;^ Frank 

 Johnson from the 1st of July to the end of the 

 year;^ G. E. Miner, from January 1 to August 

 15.^ James Kiernan says the seals should be 

 protected from February until October,^ and 

 Isaac M. Lenard, from February to November.^ 

 Thomas Brown (No. 1.) says that in order to 

 prevent the extermination of seals the hunting of 

 them should be prohibited until after the mother 

 seals give birth to their young ; ^ which opinion 

 is also advanced by Capt. Victor JackobsonJ 

 William Short says that sealing should be pro-, 

 hibited in the North Pacific before the middle of 

 June.^ And Charles Peterson says: "The prac- 

 tice of taking seals in the water before they give 

 birth to their young is destructive to seal life and 

 should be prohibited." ^ 



A close season ^ o-lancc at the abovc opinions of those who 



luipiacticable. ^ - 



have been or are engaged in pelagic sealing is 

 sufficient to show that a close season can not 

 accomplish the preservation of the seal, for, taken 



' Vol. II, p. 350. 



2 Vol. II, p. 441. 



= Vol. II, p. 467. See also George Disliow, Vol. II, p. 323. 



^ Vol. II, p. 451. 



6 Vol. II, p. 217. 

 eVol. II, p. 319. 



7 Vol. II, p. 328. 

 8Vol,II,p.348. 

 9Vol.II,p.3'16. 



