314 CONCLUSION. 



It is submitted, that tlie facts detailed in the foregoing Chapters 

 establish that if any regulations affecting pelagic sealing are to be made 

 with a view to the protection and preservation of the fur-seals in or 

 habitually frequenting Behring Sea, it will be necessary for their eifect- 

 ive working that, concurrently with such regulations, there should be 

 enforced proper limitations and restrictions upon the taking of seals 

 upon the Pribylofif Islands themselves. That any regulations must be 

 assented to by all nations whose subjects frequent, or are likely in the 

 future to frequent, the waters of Behring Sea for pelagic sealing, and 

 must be framed so as not unduly to restrict or interfere with the justi- 

 fiable exercise by all nations of the industry of sealing at sea, which is 

 in itself a perfectly legitimate method of obtaining the benefit of a 

 natural product. 



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