128 REGULATIONS PROPOSED. 



"Compensatory on the Islands is reduced 10,000. The Commis- 



adjustments" pro- 

 posed, sioners evidently consider that this suggestion is 



" a just scale of equivalency as between shore 



and sea sealing" (Sec. 156); that is, that one 



Supposed peiag- week of pelagic sealing equals 10,000 seals killed. 



ic catch, 10,000 a r & & 1 



week. a s the open season proposed by them consists of 



over twenty weeks, this presupposes a pelagic 

 catch of 200,000 seals, or four times as many as 

 are contemplated by their regulations to be al- 

 lowed to the Pribilof Islands. It would also 

 make the combined number of skins derived 

 from the Alaskan herd 250,000, which certainly 

 would be more damaging to seal life than the 

 present condition of affairs, even if the United 

 States allowed 100,000 skins to be taken on the 

 Islands. 

 Unfairness of The recommendation by the Commissioners 



Commissioners J 



shown. f a ser i es of regulations such as those above 



considered is clearly indicative of the bias and 



partisan spirit which appear in nearly every 



section of their Report. 



Alternative The alternative regulations proposed (Sees. 



methods of regu- ° i 1 \ 



lations. 163-168), such as entire prohibition of killing 



seals on the breeding islands and periods of rest, 

 with the necessary governmental charge thereby 

 imposed, are not regarded by the United States 

 as subjects requiring attention in the Counter 

 Case, They are manifestly inadmissible. 



