Item #11829 The Behring Sea Controversy. Stephen Berrien Stanton.

The Behring Sea Controversy

New York: A B King, 1892.

Hardcover. Fair with no dust jacket. Item #11829

Ex-Library. Lacks title page. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, tone, hinges starting but firm, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Dispute over Canadian fur seal hunting in the open waters of Bering Sea starting in 1886. Text includes documents and briefs on this international law dispute through 1892. This practice killed many nursing mother seals and severely damaged the seal rookeries. The dispute went to arbitration in 1893, and the rulings favored Great Britain (representing Canada), although some ineffective restrictions were placed on the practice. Significant restrictions did not occur until the 1911 North Pacific Fur Seal Convention severely limited the seal industry.; Ex-Library; 102 pages.

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