PELAGIC SEALING. 



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PELAGIC SEALING CATCHES. 1804-1897. 



Note: The detailed cratches of the American and Canadian sealing fleets for the period 1894-1897 

 are here given to illustrate the absence of beneficial effect from the regulations of the Paris Award 

 under which the pelagic sealing industry has been conducted since 1894, and incidentally to show the 

 decline of the herd as manifest in the declining catch. The latter fact taken in connection with the 

 diminishing Meet shows the growing unprofitableness of the pelagic industry. 



Fur-seal catch of American vessels for 1894. 1 

 [Prepared by A. B. Alexander.] 



'Senate Doc. 137, 1895. 



"This vessel liml not yet returned. 



'Lost; number of skins not known. 



4 Lost: 535 skins taken: none saved. 

 6 Lost; skins not saved. 

 6 Indians from Neah hay. 



