117 



nonadjusted number. Adjusted numbers of seals killed are not used in any of the 

 calculations in this report because the data are similar for ages 3, 4, and 5, and 

 it is not known if the adjusted or the nonadjusted age composition is more rep- 

 resentative of the true age composition. 



FEMAIiES 



The 13,335 females killed on the Pribilof Islands in 1968 were considered excess 

 to the number needed to maintain the production of pups at the present level. 

 St. Paul Island contributed 10,544 females, and St. George Island, 2,791. Right 

 upper canine teeth from 30 percent of the females killed were used to estimate 

 the age composition of the total kill (tables A-5 to A-12) . 



TABLE 2.-UNADJUSTED AND ADJUSTED KILL OF MALESEALS, PRI BILOF ISLANDS, ALASKA, JUNE 26 TO AUG. 5, 1968 



>We did not include 130 6-year-old males taken on the Pribilof Islands June 26 to Aug. 5, nor 307 males killed on St. 

 Paul Island Aug. 3 and 5 because the data for these seals were incomplete. 



TABLE 3.— NUMBER OF FEMALE SEALS TO BE KILLED AND THE NUMBER ACTUALLY TAKEN DURING A SPECIAL 

 KILL OF FEMALE SEALS, PRIBILOF ISLANDS, ALASKA, AUGUST 1968 



Island and rookery 



Quota Actual kill 



St. Paul Island: 



Northeast Point 2,129 



Tolstoi-Zapadni Reef 1,022 



Zapadni-Little Zapadni 1,874 



Reef - 1,789 



Lukanin-Kitovi 596 



Polovina 1,107 



Total.... 8,517 



2,829 

 962 



2,137 



1,417 

 592 



1,374 



9,311 



The kill began about 6 a.m. Monday through Friday on St. Paul Island and 

 about 9 a.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on St. George Island. All females 

 killed were taken from hauling grounds, and all females in the drive were killed 

 regardless of age or size. When the kill of males ended 2 August on St. Paul 

 Island and 5 August on St. George Island, 1,233 and 173 females, respectively, 

 had been taken. The relative size of each rookery was used as a guide in killing 

 the remaining 11,594 females needed to achieve a quota of 13,000 (table 3). A 

 special effort was made not to exceed the quotas on Reef, Polovina, and Staraya 

 Artil, three rookeries where females are extremely accessible. 



Table 4 shows the kills of females from year classes 1943-67. 



Affidavit 



In July of 1970 I, Thomas S. Bywaters, with Victor Losick went to the Pribilof 

 Islands to record on film the seal slaughter which is carried out annually by the 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. 



We spent ten days on St. Paul Island, observing the horrible massacre and the 

 life of the Aleut native colony on the Island. 



While on St. Paul, we filmed the brutal, inhumane killings, the rookeries where 

 the baby seals are bom and the bulls and females breed, the town and the blubber 

 plant. We were not allowed to film interviews with the natives nor with the Gov- 

 ernment employees (although an NBC crew which came after us was given carte 

 blanche to film anything and everything) . 



