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Fur Seals and Global Powers Clash Over Pacific Rookeries
The text recounts the Pacific fur seal trade and its protection on rookeries across the Kamchatka coast, the Pribilofs, and the Sea of Japan. It notes international contention involving the United States Canada Britain Japan and Russia, with figures on catches and values, and describes hunting methods and wartime protections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Ion
Pribyloff
Bering
Sam
Jack Canuck
Pacific
British Columbia
Alaska
Cape Horn
Falklands
Pacific Islets
Canada
Bering Sea
Russia
Japan
Kamchat Dew
San Francisco
Copper Islands
North Pacific
Pribvichi Islands
Alaska Commercial Company
Kamchatka
New London
Connecticut
Great Britain
United States
Kunile Islands
Saghalin
Portsmouth
Pabylouf Islands
Sea of Japan