THIRD. 

 REGULATIONS PROPOSED IN THE REPORT. 



The Commissioners of Great Britain have in- 

 troduced in their Report a number of schemes 

 for the future regulation of taking- fur-seals be- 

 longing to the Alaskan herd. The United States The only regu- 

 lations sufficient, 

 insist, as claimed in their Case, that they have, 



upon the facts established by the evidence, such 

 a property and interest in the seal herd frequent- 

 ing the Islands of the United States in Bering 

 Sea, and in the industry there maintained arising 

 out of it, as entitles them to protection and to 

 be protected by the award of this Tribunal 

 against all pelagic sealing, which is the subject 

 of controversy in this Case. And, quite irre- 

 spective of any right of property or of self- 

 defense in respect of their territorial interests, 

 they claim to have clearly shown that no regu- 

 lations short of prohibition will be sufficient to 

 prevent the early destruction of the Alaskan 

 seal herd. 



In a consideration of these regulations suor- Jurisdiction of 



° to Tribunal of Arbi- 



gested, it is apparent that the principal curtail- Nation. 



ment of seal-killing, in each of the various plans 



proposed, is to be applied to the Pribilof Islands. 



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