THE SEALING INDUSTRY
j NEW YORK, August 11. 1 The Japanese pelagic fleet, not being bound by the convention prohibiting the British and American fleets killing seals within a zone of 60 miles around the Pribylov Islands, pursues the seals up to the ordinary three-mile limit.
This so injuriously affects the" British Columbia sealing industry that the owners of the British Columbia sealers contemplate placing their vessels under the Japanese flag. ST. PETERSBURG, Au<uist 14.
Russii is trying to induce Japan to adhere to the Russian Conventions with Great Britain and America for the protection of the seal fisheries.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 25
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