Word: pribilofs
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...spring when thousands of amorously barking seals follow their lovesick fancies up the coasts of Oregon and Washington toward the Pribilof Islands, their mating grounds, the U. S. sends its Coast Guard to escort them, allows them to be killed only by aborigines in canoes, using spears and harpoons. Last spring Indians killed 2,000 of a herd of over a million and thus collected their lawful share of the sealing rights. In the summer natives of the Pribilof Islands are hired by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries to drive inland thousands of bachelor bull seals, knock them over...
...When the musicians play, Pribilof fur seals?if any chance to be about?are piped to the surface. The cutter swings, the music sounds again; again the rising seals are noted. Presently the guardsmen have formed a very good idea of the size of the seal herd, a report on which is part of their duty...
...rest of their duty: To guard the seals on their annual submarine hegira to the Pribilof Islands from the depredations of any hunters except Indians in canoes, armed only with spears or harpoons (TIME, March...
...their migration, Pribilof seals parade in pairs or singly, not in a herd. They can stay under water for seven hours without coming up for air; after heavy storms sailors have seen them on the surface resting and wallowing in the waves. They feed upon squid, Alaska pollack, other small fish...
...interest to the U. S. Biological Survey and state fish hatcheries is the question of whether, in rambling up the continental coast, Pribilof seals eat many salmon. Washington salmon fisheries say yes; Government experts say no. This year the Indian seal-hunters have been requested to cut open the stomachs of their kill, examine the Contents...