Seal Fisheries of Behring Sea: Message from the President of the United States Transmitting a Letter from the Secretary of State, with Accompanying Papers, Touching the Subjects in Dispute Between the Government of the United States and the Government of Great Britain in the Behring Sea, Including All Communications Since March 4, 1889U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 - 96 страница |
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... killing of seals in the open sea involves the destruction of the female in common with the male . The slaughter of the female seal is reckoned as an immediate loss of three seals , besides the future loss of the whole number which the ...
... killing of seals in the open sea involves the destruction of the female in common with the male . The slaughter of the female seal is reckoned as an immediate loss of three seals , besides the future loss of the whole number which the ...
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... kill vast quantities of fish , and at the same time destroy countless numbers of eggs . Stringent laws have been necessary to prevent the taking of fish by the use of dynamite in many of the rivers and lakes of the United States . The ...
... kill vast quantities of fish , and at the same time destroy countless numbers of eggs . Stringent laws have been necessary to prevent the taking of fish by the use of dynamite in many of the rivers and lakes of the United States . The ...
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... killing of seals in the open sea tends certainly and rapidly to the extermination of the species . If further evidence is desired , it can be readily furnished . I have , etc. JAMES G. BLAINE . [ Inclosure . ] Memorandum . From the ...
... killing of seals in the open sea tends certainly and rapidly to the extermination of the species . If further evidence is desired , it can be readily furnished . I have , etc. JAMES G. BLAINE . [ Inclosure . ] Memorandum . From the ...
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... killed or driven from their haunts ; so that now the only existing rookeries are those in Alaska , another in the Russian part of Behring Sea , and a third on Lobos Island , at the mouth of the river Plate in South America . All these ...
... killed or driven from their haunts ; so that now the only existing rookeries are those in Alaska , another in the Russian part of Behring Sea , and a third on Lobos Island , at the mouth of the river Plate in South America . All these ...
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... killed old and young , male and female ; little pups a few days old , deprived of their mothers , died by thousands on the beaches , carcasses and bones strewed the shores , and this pro- ductive fishery was wholly destroyed . It is ...
... killed old and young , male and female ; little pups a few days old , deprived of their mothers , died by thousands on the beaches , carcasses and bones strewed the shores , and this pro- ductive fishery was wholly destroyed . It is ...
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1st sess 44th Cong Adams Alaska Commercial Company Aleutian Islands American animals April August Behring Sea Behring's Sea Blaine to Sir Blaine's breeding islands Britain British Columbia British vessels Canadian Government Captain catch Congressional committee cows destruction dispatch Elliott ernment evidence fact female seals fish fur-seal H. R. Ex honor Inclosure Indians July June land lease lessees Lobos Islands Lord Salisbury lordship Majesty's Government males marauders Marquis of Salisbury McIntyre ment miles minister negotiation north latitude northwest coast number of seals open sea opinion Pacific Ocean Paul and St Phelps present President Pribylov Islands proposed protection pups question reference Richard Rush rookeries Russia Russian American Company says schooner seal fisheries seal islands sealers Secretary seizure shore shot Sir Julian Pauncefote skins slaughter South special agent statement territory Tingle tion Treasury treaty ukase United States Government Victoria Washington waters white hunters young
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