. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska [microform]. Bering Sea controversy; Sealing; Sealing; Salmon fisheries; Béring, Affaire des pêcheries de; Phoques; Phoques; Saumon. AI-AHKA INl»rsTHIE8. 73 In other words, tor every 1,00!>,(i84 young nude seals during the same twenty years (in addition to pups), and that 27.!â¢() of the skins were rejected, is true; but the lessees are notblaniable tor that, for they had notliing whatever to do witii it, and c(Hise(|uently I have counted only the skins of the seals killed during the regular .sealing season and before the seals
. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska [microform]. Bering Sea controversy; Sealing; Sealing; Salmon fisheries; Béring, Affaire des pêcheries de; Phoques; Phoques; Saumon. AI-AHKA INl»rsTHIE8. 73 In other words, tor every 1,00!>,(i84 young nude seals during the same twenty years (in addition to pups), and that 27.!â¢() of the skins were rejected, is true; but the lessees are notblaniable tor that, for they had notliing whatever to do witii it, and c(Hise(|uently I have counted only the skins of the seals killed during the regular .sealing season and before the seals becanu' "; iMost of the seals killed for natives' food were taken during the "stagy" season, hence tlie rejection of so many of the skins. This is why I have repeatedly advised in this iind foinier reports that no killing for any ]> should be i)erniitted during the "stagy" season. The numagement of the seal islands, and the care bestowed on the seals by the lessees and their agents, are matters of history into which it is not necessary to enter, because the above tigures show far more elocpiently and conclusively than w(uds of mine could that that must of necessity he a well managed business which can make such a show- ing at the end of twenty years. Only 7 rejected skins out of every 4,01)0 seals killed is a record for good and careful management that the lessees may very well be proud of, and it is a withering reply to all the idle story-tellers who have attempted from time to time to make the world believe that careless- ness and brutality united in driving the seals hurriedly to the killing grounds, leaving hundreds dead on the road, and that bad manage- ment, corruption, and dishonesty reigned supreme on the seal islands. In another part of this report f have given a table showing the num- ber of seal .skins actually recorded as sold as a result of pelagic sealing from 1808 to 1811-1, both inclusive, which shows the gra
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