408 SEALING FLEET AND PELAGIC CATCH OF 1892. 



RECAPITULATION. 



By American vessels 

 By British vessels . . . 



Total 



Total 

 number of 

 skins taken 



28, 037 

 45, 357 



73, 394 



Skins taken 

 on Asiatic 



si do. 



11, 948 



14, 804 



26, 752 



One hundred and twenty-two vessels took in all 73,394 skins; average catch per vessel, 601.59 skins. 



Ninety-five vessels took on the east side of the Pacific Ocean 46,642 skins (from the Pribilof herd) ; 

 average catch per vessel, 490.96 skins. 



Forty vessels took on the west side of the Pacific Ocean 26,752 skins (from the Commander herd) • 

 average catch per vessel, 668.8 skins. 



District of Columbia, 



City of Washington, ss : 

 George L. Scarborough, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am a 

 clerk in the Department of State. The annexed table, compiled by me, 

 represents the vessels engaged in pelagic sealing and the nationalties 

 and catches of the same during the year 1892. The data from which 

 the table has been compiled are reports of officials of the State, Treasury, 

 and Navy Departments of the United States, statistics obtained from 

 persons engaged in the fur trade and by the press, and information 

 obtained from competent and reliable persons. 



Geo. L. Scarborough. 



Sworn to before me this 24th day of December, 1892. 



[seal.] Sevellon A. Brown, 



Notary Public in and for the District of Columbia, U, 8. A. 



