fur-seal

The act adopted at the last session of Congress to give effect to the fur-seal convention Of July 7, 1911, between Great Britain, Japan,

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The administration of the Alaskan fur-seal service should be vested in the Bureau of Fisheries.

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The difference between the two Governments touching the fur-seal question in the Bering Sea is not yet adjusted, as will be seen by the correspondence which will soon be laid before the Congress.

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Of marine mammals the most characteristic are the sea-lion, fur-seal, sea-otter and harbour-seal.

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American fur-seal herd and for increasing its number.

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Government of the United States during the same period to enforce its existing prohibition against pelagic sealing and to limit the catch by the fur-seal company upon the islands to 7,500 skins.

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The fur-seal controversy, which for nearly twenty-five years has been the source of serious friction between the United States and the powers bordering upon the north Pacific Ocean, whose subjects have been permitted to engage in pelagic sealing against the fur-seal herds having their breeding grounds within the jurisdiction of the United States, has at last been satisfactorily adjusted by the conclusion of the north

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The fur-seal fishery is an important industry, though apparently a declining one.

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The cause of the great decrease in value of beaver fur is the substitute which has been found for it in the skins of the fur-seal and nutria - the improved preparation of other skins of little value, such as the hare and rabbit - and, more than all, in the use of silk in the manufacture of hats, which has in a great measure superseded that of beaver.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

The principal breeding ground of the fur-seal is on the

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