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Tyulenii Island was visited reularly by sealing veasels
during.the first years after its discovery in ie middle of the 19th
century, and in 1852-55 japanese sealers were killing from 50,000 to
60,000 every year; later the number fell to 20,000-30.,000. The
stocks of fur seals were so depleted that from 1891 to 1901 the
total kill was only 6,000, and from then until 191.0 Sealing On Tyulenii
Island ceased altogether. On the Komandorskie Islands, where
the "Xamchatka Trading and Fur Company' operated; desLructive slaugh-.
ter of fur seals •continued; in spite- of any lack of resLriction on
killing them, only about 68,000 were taken during the decade'190110.
The American take on the rribylov Islands also fell sharply, and
during the decade 1901-10 only 232,000 fur seals were taken there.
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111,1:Gulona
1871-1 8e 29,1 2,6 135,5
1881-1FM 41,8 4,0 141,1
1891-1900 .19,3 0,7 13,4
1901-19:0 6,7 • --. 9 3,0
1911--1920 1,3 0,4 11,2
1921-190 0,7 1,1 31,4
1931-1910 -- 2,0 59,4
1941--1950 4,3 8,9 66,5
1951-1960 3,4 4,0 72, 3
TABLE 8. Take of Pur Seals in Shore Rookeries by . Decades
(in thousands).
Key: 1) Years. 2) Regions.. 3) Komandorskie•Islands.
4) Tyulenii Island. 5) I'ribylov Islands.
Pur seals were taken not only in their shore rookeries but
also at sea. Uhip-based hunting of them ocean in 1868 and reached
a maximum in 1891, when a temporary stop was put to ship-based sealing
in the eastern part of the Bering Sea by a treaty between the U.S.A.
and Britain; sealing by American, Canadian, a/h', dapanese sealing
vessels th..?r, moved to the western part of tne
exploit.the P.omandorskie Islands herd of fur seal's.
in order to
As a result of the groat fiecrease•in tne numbers of fur seals
in all sarts of their range, a Convention for the protection of fur
seals.was concluded in 1911 between hussa.,
(repreLentin: Canada), and Japan, L ,rohibittn,., Le
U..A., i)ritain
of these