258 PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION. 



Prohibition of 1891, savs: '^Effectively to protect the industry 



pelagic sealing in 



Bering Sea. qiic would havc to iucludc all the Pacific Ocean 

 and coasts thereof to north of, say, latitude 50 

 deof."^ Great Britain has therefore conceded 

 that the seal herd needs protection outside 

 Bering Sea during the greater portion of its 

 migration. 

 Proiiiiiitio n of The fourtli and last means of a limited prohi- 



pelagic scaling ^ 



within a zone. bitiou proposcd is to draw an imaginary line 

 about the islands within which open-sea sealing 

 should be prohibited. The distance suggested 

 as a radius for such a zone about the Pribilof 

 Islands varies from twenty-five^ or thirty^ to fifty 

 miles."^ 

 Courses of seal- To sliow liow ineffective such a means of pro- 



lug vessels. ^ 



tection would be it is but necessary to examino 

 the charts showing the courses of sealing 

 schooners seized in Bering Sea in 1887, which 

 have bean platted, from tlie original log books of 

 the vessels in the possession of the United States 

 Government, by the Bureau of the United States 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey and which have been 



1 "The Bering Sea Dispute: A Settlement," by Sir George 

 Baden-Powell, Vol. I, p. 589. 



'■'Lord. Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford, Feb. 28. 1892, 

 British Blue Book, U. S. No. 1 (1892) C-6633, No. 5, p. 2. 



3 Henry Poland, Vol. II, p. 572; Sir J. Pauncefotc to the Marquis 

 of Salisbury, Feb. 2G, 1892, British Blue Book, U. S. No. 1 (1892), 

 C-6633, No. 8, p. 3. 



■•Morris Moss, Vol, II, p. 342. 



