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SE^ALSKIN CURING OPERATIONS 



At St. Paul 49 men were employed in the skin-curing plant and 6 on carcass dis- 

 posal ; 17 performed both functions at St. George. Three blubbering beams were re- 

 moved on St. Paul to install the experimental fleshing machine. Pre-season cal- 

 culations indicated as large a harvest as the previous year. There was only one 

 reduction in manpower on St. Paul but- a larger reduction on St. George from the 

 previoiis year. Minor adjustments were made in employee assignments to ac- 

 complish the skin-curing. Robert Booth, an employee of The Fouke Company, 

 was assigned for a brief period to St. Paul as a technical specialist and quality 

 control inspector. 



SOURCES OF RECRUITMENT FOR SKIN-CURING WORKERS 



1964 



1%5 



1966 



1967 



1968 



Pribilof Islands 



Aleutian Villages 



Mainland Alaska 



Contiguous 48 States 



Total 



81 



76 



72 



78 



72 



> 2 were former Pribilovians now residing in Seattle. 



Exhibit O — Fisheries No. 617 "Fur Seal Investigations, 1968," Published 



December 1970 



Ol — 



-~t— 3-YC4R-01.0 MALES 

 — O— 4— VEAK OLD MALES 



I 

 .TJLV 



5. I 

 AO'^J.M 



Figure 3. — Kill of 3- and 4-year-olrj male scols, 

 St, Paul Island, 26 June to 2 August 1968. 



CH — 



JUNC 



— X" 3-YEAR-OLO MALES 

 — O— 4~YEAR-CL0 MAuES 



16 21 



Figure A, — Kill of 3- and 4-year-old male seals, 

 St. George Island, 26 June to 5 August 1968. 



* * * possible magnitude of error in the number of males of each age killed 

 in 1968. Differences between adjusted and nonadjusted age compositions were 

 about 1 percent each for 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old males and 17 percent for 2-year-old 

 males (table 2). The adjusted number of 2-year-old males was less than the 



