January, 1921 
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their share in the biggest hunt the world 
has ever known), to take him to the 
haunts of the fish and game which are 
there found in such abundance. 
THE SEA OTTER AND 
LAND OTTER 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9) 
partners, what incentive there was to 
bludgeon the Aleut hunter into a slave 
without paying for the Russian, and 
what motive there was in turn for the 
Aleut to turn and slit his criminal 
master’s throat. 
T O-DAY Sea Otter rookeries are 
more jealously guarded than dia- 
monds. Only there are no more 
Sea Otter on the rookeries of the Aleut- 
ian and Bering Sea Islands. Only an 
occasional Sea Otter carcass is washed 
up dead, or an Indian comes in with an 
odd pelt, which he does not recognize. 
To-day, the whole world sells, perhaps 
3, perhaps 20. Ten years ago, the catch 
was 200 ; and Sea Otter might have been 
saved. To-day, it is almost too late. 
Unless Sea Otter rookeries are found in 
Southern Polar Seas of which the world 
does not know, Sea Otter are lost for- 
ever to the fur world and to natural 
history. 
When malcontents denounce the pela- 
gic sealing award, they should think of 
the Sea Otter. Had the Sea Otter, been 
protected by international treaty at the 
time the Seal was, the Sea Otter might 
have been saved and might have come 
back. 
What was the catch of the Sea Otter 
in its best days? Portlock and Dixon’s 
cargo sold for $50,000. In 1785, 5,000 
sea otter were sold in China for $160,- 
000. Two-hundred-thousand sea otter 
were taken by the Russians in 50 years. 
In 1875, American Companies newly 
come on the hunting ground, were tak- 
ing 3,000 a year. Kadiak was credited 
with 6,000 a year, Unalaska with 3,000, 
the Commander Islands with about 
5,000. 
And so while an optimist may depre- 
cate the possibility of high prices ex- 
terminating certain types of fur bearing 
wild life, Sea Otter is an argument on 
the other side for fur farming, game 
preserves, closed seasons, and interna- 
tional treaty to conserve any fur de- 
pleting down to the point of exhaustion. 
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