CATCH OF SEALING FLEET IN 1893. 



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67,000 Commauder Island skins, the majority females. How many more were wastefuUy 

 killed and lost it is impossible to say. 



I append a list of the Canadian vessels sealing on the Asiatic side in 1893, 

 extracted from the Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the Canadian Department of 

 Fisheries (pp. olxvi-olxvii), with additions from Venning's report, as follows: 



Beport of vessels of British Columhia sealing fleet sealing on the "Bmsian side," season 1893. 



Wise by experience, the sealing fleet kept pretty well outside the 30-mile zone, 

 though the following seizures of British vessels were made : 



(1) Minnie, of Victoria, British Columbia, seized by the Yakut, July 17, 21 miles 

 southeast of Copper Island. 



(2) Ainoho, of Victoria, British Columbia, seized by the YaMut, July 22, 16 miles 

 south of Copper Island. 



(3) Maud 8., of Victoria, British Columbia, seized by the Yakut, August 29, 22 

 miles southwest of Copper Island. 



(4) Arctic, of Shanghai, seized by the Zabiaka within the 30-mile zone. 

 Of these, only the Minnie was afterwards condemned. 



