. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 24 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 15, No. 12 A total of 27,113 skins from the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, where the sealing industry is administered by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was sold for $1,944,920. At the last auction in April, U. S. receipts from the sale of 24,400 Alaska skins amounted to $2,084,101. The average price for Alaska skins sold for the U. S. Government in October was $ per skLn, compared with $ per skin at the April auction. Of the Alaska skins sold, 16,017 were "matara" brown, 2,900 were &q
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 24 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 15, No. 12 A total of 27,113 skins from the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, where the sealing industry is administered by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was sold for $1,944,920. At the last auction in April, U. S. receipts from the sale of 24,400 Alaska skins amounted to $2,084,101. The average price for Alaska skins sold for the U. S. Government in October was $ per skLn, compared with $ per skin at the April auction. Of the Alaska skins sold, 16,017 were "matara" brown, 2,900 were "safari" brown (a lighter brown), and 8,196 were black. The matara skins brought an average of $ per skin as compared with the April average of $ The safari skins sold for an average of $ as against $ in April. The black skins averaged $, compared to $ at the April auction. Because sizes and qualities of skins differ somewhat from one auction to another, these comparisons must be considered relative. In addition to the U. S. -owned skins, 5,001 Cape of Good Hope fur-seal skins were sold for the South African Government at an average of $ per skin and 817 Uruguay fur-seal skins were sold for the Uruguayan Government at a $ average. Gulf Exploratory Fishery Program "OREGON" DRAGS AT 830-FATHOM DEPTH: A drag at a depth of 830 fathoms was made by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service's exploratory fishing vessel M. V. Oregon in the northern Gulf of Mexico on October 6, 1953. This was the deepest fishing that the vessel has carried out to date, and it was made with a 40-foot shrimp trawl using 2,300 fathoms of trawling cable. The position was 28°58' N. , 88OOO' W., about 60 miles east of the mouth of the Mississippi River. Examination of the chain lead line proved the net had been on the bottom at this depth of nearly one mile. The catch was small, and included seven pounds of very small black fishes and a quart of many kind
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