’ PELAGIC SEALING. 
PELAGIC SEALING CATCHES, 1894-1897. 
‘Note: The detailed catches of the American and Canadian sealing fleets for the period 1894-1897 
are here given to illustrate the absence of beneficial effect from the regulations of the Paris Award 
under which the pelagic sealing industry has been conducted since 1894, and incidentally to show the 
decline of the herd as manifest in the declining catch. The latter fact taken in connection with the 
diminishing fleet shows the growing unprofitableness of the pelagic industry. 
Fur-seal catch of American vessels for 1894.! 
[Prepared by A. B. Alexander.] . 
Vessel. 
Northwest 
Japan 
coast. 
Copper 
coast. Island. Sea. 
AMON csnsccginviemenciese seaweed cwdeteauseoe : 
Anna Matilda. «2c .250000 cccees cee cee sec 
Alle 1. AlQOts asscxexssauvenensaeve aossaere 
Bonanza 
Bowhead 
Cc. G. White 
me feted ajslere ciscnaim arate 
Epping POP cmicece jens 
Edward E. Wepstet: - 
Ella Johnson...... 
H.C. Wahlberg -. 
Henry Dennis. ... 
Herman ....... 
Jane Gray .....----.------ + eee ee: 
Kate and Anna ....-..---..------.++- 
ary H. Thomas?.... 
Mascot4 ........... 
Mattie T. Dyer... 
Mathew Turner’. 
Penelope....... 
Prescott ... 
Willard Ainsworth .. 
Winchester.......... 
Amateur® ..- 
Columbia®. a a 
C.C. Perkins®.. 
Deeahks ®..-. 
Dart®......+..cccc0e- 
Felitz®....-....-- 
James G. Swané 
Puritan 
41, 000 
1Senate Doe. 137, 1895. 
.2'This vessel had not yet returned. 
3Lost; number of skins not known. 
4Lost; 535 skins taken; none saved. 
5 Lost; skins not saved. 
®Indians from Neah Bay. 
