BEHRING SEA FISHERIES.
SEALS BEING EXTERMINATED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. New York, December 7. An official report received at Washington shows that the seals on the Pribiloff Islands are being fast destroyed, and that there are now only 180,000 instead of from 4,000,000 to 7,000,000 as formerly.
The Pribiloff Islands, commonly called Seal Islands, .are four in number," and lie off the coast of Alaska. The Islands have been made a reserve by the United States Government, and right to the seal fishing is leased to companies for terms up to 20 years. It was on St. Paul's, one of the two principal islands, that the Japanese poachers were surprised on July 16 last. and rive of them shot dead, and 12 arrested, by the Government's guards from the gunboat McCulloch. It was reported that the Japanese vessels escaped heavily-laden with skins.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13356, 10 December 1906, Page 5
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