172 THE FUR SEALS OP THE PEIIULOF ISLANDS. 



THE EFFECT UNDER THE PARIS REGULATIONS. 



From tliese figures we begin to ap])reciate tlie effect wliicli pebigic sealing lias 

 bad 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 the 

 regulations of the Paris Tribunal went into ett'ect. The following is the result: 



f.oss to the I'ribUof herd Ihroiiflh pefagic xealiiifi since 1S94. 



Aniin.Tls iictiiiilly socnred 187, 000 



Auinials shot, but lost (undeteruiiued). 



Unborn jiiips destroved with females (75 per cent of above) 140, 000 



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



Tot,al 449. 000 



'I'otnl l.inrt killinj;, s;ime period SO, (10(1 



It is scarcely necessary to add anything to tliis arraigument of pelagic sealing. 

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

 adjudge it the efflcient cause of the de(^line. 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 offsj)ring. It naturally follows that these figures 

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

 Paris award. 



