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George Heater, master mariner, says: "lu 1891 tlie 'Eosie Olsen' got 

 about 300 seals on the coast. A large majority of these were young 

 bulls. This year the 'Ainoko' got 750 seals on the coast, about one-third 

 cows; most of the old cows were in pup, but some were barren. . . . 

 In 1890 I was in Behring Sea a full season on the 'Sapphire;' the 

 greater part of her catch in the Sea that year was males." 



Alfred J. Bertram, six years' experience, says that both on the coast 

 and in Behring Sea he has found the seals about equally divided as 

 to sex. 



Albert McGarva, five years' experience, says : " This year [1892] I took 

 a great many more males than females; the year before they were in 

 about equal numbers, and the year before that I took more females than 

 males. The males are more easily got than females." 



Robert Findlay, four years' experience, states that "in former years 

 we got on the coast more females than males, I think, but this year there 

 were most males. One day this year we got over 100 seals, nearly all 

 of them being males." 



John Kraft, eight years' experience, thinks about half the seals taken 

 by him are females. Cows with young in them are more on the look-out 

 than others. 



Frank G. Warrington, six years' experience, says that his experience 

 has been that more females than males are killed both on the coast and 

 11 Behring Sea, 



G. E. Miner, six years' experience, says that, as a rule, he kills more 

 females than males, but that in 1892 but 10 per cent, of his catch were 

 females. 



J. D. Warren says that a little over half his coast catch were females. 

 Of the females, not over half were in pup, and in some years less than 

 half. The remainder of the females were young seals and barren cows. 

 In Behring Sea the proi^ortion of females was about the same. 



Charles Otis Burns was a boat-steerer in 1891, and says the boat he 

 was in took about half females, certainly not more; about two thirds of 

 the cows were in pup on the coast, and there were a number of barren 

 cows and young ones. In 1892 he was a hunter, and nearly the whole 

 of his upper coast catch were bulls; about one-half the females were 

 with pup. A good many barren cows were also got. 



Micajah Fickney says that in 1891 less than half the catch of the ves- 

 sel he was on were females, and that in 1892 there were very few females 

 among 152 seals taken on the coast — not one-fourth. In 1892 he sealed 

 in Behring Sea, and took 420 seals between 80 and 150 miles from Priby- 

 loff Islands. All the seals, except about sixty, were skinned on board. 

 "About one-fourth were females; none of these were with young or in 

 milk. They had had their pups, and the milk bad dried up. ... I 

 saw them come on board, counted them, and have a clear memory of 

 the fact that there were no females in pup and none in milk. Nearly 

 the whole catch were bulls, principally ' middlings ' and small bulls." 



W. 0. Hughes states that in 1891 half his coast catch were females^ 

 of which one half were in pup. In Behring Sea about half his catch 

 were females, of which about one-third showed milk. Not more than 

 10 per cent, of his coast catch in 1892 were females, and less than half 

 of them were in pup. 



James MoRae says that about half the seals he got on the coast in 

 1892 were females, of which four or five were cows in pup. 



