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Seal Islands and the Alaska Fur Seal Protection Agreement
The article explains the December 15 1911 adoption of an international treaty by the United States Great Britain Russia and Japan to prohibit pelagic sealing for fifteen years and regulate land killing of surplus male fur seals on the Pribilof Islands in Alaska It traces the herd decline from millions to about 150000 and argues for careful controlled harvests to conserve the species while supporting native communities and revenue from pelts
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Japan
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific
High Seas
Robben Island
Kurile Chain
Commander Islands
Kamchatka
Pacific Ocean
California
Bering Sea
Alaska
Congress
Seal Islands
Bureau of Fisheries
Unalaska Island
Aleutian Islands
North
Pacific
Pribilof Islands
Alexander I
Islands
Okhotsk Sea
International Tribunal of Arbitration
Paris
Arbitration Court