172 THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



THE EFFECT UNDER THE PARIS REGULATIONS. 



From these figures we begin to appreciate the effect which pelagic sealing has 

 had on the fur seal herd. At the risk of repetition it is worth while to carry this 

 computation one step further and see what has been the condition of things since tbe 

 regulations of the Paris Tribunal went into effect. The following is the result: 



Loss to the Pribilof herd Ihrotiyh pelagic xeal'my since 1S94. 



Animals actually secured 187, 000 



Animals shot, but lost (undetermined). 



Unborn pups destroyed with females (75 per cent of above) 140, 000 



Nursing pups starved (proportion of females killed in Bering Sea) 122, 000 



Total 449,000 



Total land killing, same period 80, 000 



It is scarcely necessary to add anything to this arraignment of pelagic sealing. 

 In its known effects, coupled with the absence of any other known cause, we must 

 adjudge it the efficient cause of the decline. The fur-seal herd has declined and is 

 declining solely because of the slaughter of its gravid and nursing females and the 

 premature destruction of their offspring. It naturally follows that these figures 

 constitute an equally striking and conclusive condemnation of the regulations of the 

 Paris award. 



