THE GREAT SLAUGHTER OF SEALS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 11, 12 March 1892, Page 260

THE GREAT SLAUGHTER OF SEALS.

The Standard says :—Mr Tingle, the Revenue and Marine agent, reports that the Alaskan seal poachers have this season taken sixty thousand seals, including forty-three thousand five hundred taken by forty-eight British boats, and eight thousand five hundred and eighty-five by twentythree American boats. It is reported that the British Commissioners estimate the number of the herd in the Pribilof rookeries at five hundred thousand, which is a decrease from 1890. Apropos of the British protest against exceeding the stipulated number of seven thousand, five hundred to be killed, Mr Williams, the Treasury agent, reports that the total authorised slaughter has been ninety thousand including only four thousand since the date of the modus vivendi. Mr Williams estimates that the poachers killed seven seals for every skin that was saved.