. Biology in America. Biology. Man and Nature 433 Sealing on tlie islands is restricted to tlie "Ijachelor" herd, the number taken each year being determined by the go ment. The seals are rounded up and driven by a nu of native drivers to the killing pens whei'e they are slangli by a blow on the head with a club. Tiie skins are removed and packed in salt for shipment to market. Despite the restrictions on the killing of the seals,, the rapidly diminished to about one-tentli of its original It was simply a repetition of "watcliing the spigot" the "bung-hole" was al
. Biology in America. Biology. Man and Nature 433 Sealing on tlie islands is restricted to tlie "Ijachelor" herd, the number taken each year being determined by the go ment. The seals are rounded up and driven by a nu of native drivers to the killing pens whei'e they are slangli by a blow on the head with a club. Tiie skins are removed and packed in salt for shipment to market. Despite the restrictions on the killing of the seals,, the rapidly diminished to about one-tentli of its original It was simply a repetition of "watcliing the spigot" the "bung-hole" was allowed to take care of itself. vern- mber lere<l then herd size. while The. A Seal Rookery on the Pribilof Islands, Alaska Courtesy o/ the U. 8. Bureau of FishcHes. seals may be ever so well protected on their breeding grounds; but if allowed to take care of themselves elsewhere they are doomed to destruction. Realizing the threatened extinction of the herd by pelagic< sealing^ our government decided to avail itself of a right claimed by Russia in 1821, but never tested, of seizing all vessels engaged in pelagic sealing in Alaskan Avaters, whether within the three-mile limit or not. This immediately brought on a controversy with Great Britain, whose Canadian subjects were the ones chiefly affected. The result of this controversy was arbitration before the well-known Behring Sea Tribunal, which sitting in Paris in 1895 decided adversely to the United. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Young, R. T. (Robert Thompson), b. 1874. Boston, R. G. Badger
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