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. Shore-based undng of ribbon seals has been carried on for
a long time, but tac extent of the kill by the coastal populntion .
of the Sea of Okhotsk and t.re -ering Sea has never been great, since .-
Sovict sealing vessels began to operate in trie Par astern seas (in •
1932) end the seal stocks in the Sea of Okhotsk have been exploited,
more ribbon seals have been killed, althouc:;h other seal species have
been the principal object of hunting. -
Since 1954, when the sealing fleet was reinforced, the take
of seals (including ribbon seals) in tac Sea of Okhotsk has increased.
• Prom 1957 to 1961 the annual take of ribbon seals was 11,000.-18,000.
Later the take increased as hunting was extended to the stoeks of
ribbon seals in the Bering Sea (in 1961), where 8,000-9,000 ribbon
seals have been taken annually. We give below figures for ship-based
killing of ribbon seals in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea in
1957-68, in thousands.
ro; P.oiihqa ilsofimga
1957 17,8 1963 21 . ,0
1958 11,1 1964 2,2
1959 18,8 . 1965 19,6
1960 16,7 1966 15,6
1961 16,1 1967 23,7
1962 28,6 ' 1958 16,6
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Key: 1) Year.
2) Take.
The increase in ship-based killing of ribbon seals has led
to some decrease in the numbers of these seals in the"Sea of Okhotsk
and the Bering Sea. An aerial census of them was taken in the Bering
Sea in 1964, and their number was estimated at 80,000-90,000; in the
Sea .of Okhotsk, according to an aerial census taken in 1966, their
number was estimated. at 89,000. In order to corh.erve ana restore
the ribbon seal stocks in these seas an annual limit of 10,000. has
been imposed on ship-based killing of them (3,000 in trio Bering Sea
and 7,000 in the Sea of Okhotsk).
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