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CHAPTER XV. THE RESULTS OF THE PARIS AWARD Continued. Page. 



A. The arbitration Continued. 



The modus vi vendi 179 



The joint commission of inquiry 179 



The tribunal 179 



The joint report of the commission 179 



The American contention 180 



The British contention 180 



Their comparative merits 180 



B. The regulations 180 



The minor provisions 180 



The sixty-mile zone 181 



The close season 181 



Regulations adapted to work of sealers 181 



The cost of enforcing the regulations 182 



The failure of the regulations 182 



The redeeming feature of the regulations 182 



The purpose of arbitrators 183 



The obligation to protect and preserve 183 



CHAPTER XVI. SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS: 



Statements of fact 184-186 



CHAPTER XVII. THE REMEDY FOR THE DECLINE OF THE HERD: 



Revision of the regulations not adequate 187 



Pelagic sealing can not exist without the killing of females 187 



Total prohibition of pelagic sealing the only remedy 187 



CHAPTER XVIII. THE FUTURE OF THE HERD: 



A reconsideration of the question 188 



A basis for the reopening of the subject 188 



Findings of fact the decline 188 



Slow rate of increase in the herd 188 



Males can be killed with impunity 189 



Excessive destruction of females 189 



Compromise findings 189 



The herd commercially ruined 189 



Pelagic sealing incompatible with preservation 189 



The skin of the female to be contraband 190 



The proposed extermination by slaughter on the rookeries 190 



Importance of the fur seal herd 190 



A strong nucleus remains 190 



CHAPTER XIX. RECOMMENDATIONS : 



Inadequacy of past knowledge 191 



The Government agents not investigators 191 



Failure to understand conditions 191 



The wild-animal policy 192 



Lack of faith in our methods 192 



Wasteful management 192 



The two vital questions yet unknown T. . 192 



The fixing of the quota 193 



Questions which require continuous study 193 



A fixed quota not desirable 194 



The proportion of males needed 194 



Minor problems 194 



The herd should be placed in charge of a naturalist 194 



APPENDIX I. Statistics 197 



Table of killings 197-207 



Summary of totals 207 



