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A strangely consistent array of benefits will arise in 
the proper protection of the seals in the Behring Sea 
because the interest in that will redound to the good of 
all. If fishing vessels desist from unseasonable hunting, 
whales and walruses will most probably return in 
numbers to their old haunts. 
The protection of food fishes will commensurately 
preserve the food of the greater animals, and smaller 
fishes will multiply in numbers sufficient to supply food 
for those of greater value. A law requiring fishes of no 
marketable value to be returned to the sea immediately, 
will prevent great loss in the food supply of important 
mammals and large fishes, and prevent some of the 
most unpleasant hindrances to those who are unwilling 
to engage in the business because of the odor of decay- 
ing fish. Doubtless, the offal from canneries and 
salting and drying stations could be utilized for 
fertilizers with but little trouble. 
If the location renders it impossible to reduce the 
pulp to anything of value, it surely could be returned 
to the water and become the food of other fishes or 
crustaceans. The plausibility of civilized and com- 
aS delicately reared white men engaging in the 
aborious part of catching and cleaning food fishes for 
market is very doubtful, but the natives seem willing to 
work for wages, and if they are taught the mode of 
preserving to suit the market both East and West, 
there will be no great need for white men to engage in 
the manual labor. 
Doubtless, Aleuts could be taught to become trusty 
superintendents as well as workmen, and companies 
need but employ a few others to oversee, and attend to 
packing and shipping. There is no possible mistake 
in asserting that with proper management there is a 
mine of wealth in the fisheries of Alaska. The Eastern 
coast has not within the knowledge of history ever been 
the vast, almost illimitable store-house of food fishes 
