An Arctic Province Alaska And the Seal Islands
An Arctic Province Alaska And the Seal Islands
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The whole eastern half of Bering Sea, in its en- tirety, is a single fish-spawning bank, nowhere deeper than fifty to seventy-five fathoms, averaging, perhaps, forty ; also, there are great reaches of fishing- shoals up and down the northwest coast, from and above the Straits of Fuca, bordering the entire southern, or Pacific coast, of the Aleutian Islands. The aggregate of cod, herring, and salmon which the seals find upon these vast icthyological areas of reproduction, must be simply enormous..., and fully equal to a most extravagant demand of the voracious appetites of Callorliini.
When, however, the fish retire from spawning here, there, and everywhere over these shallows of Alaska and the northwest coast, along by the end of September to the 1st of November, every year, I believe that the young fur- 330 OUR ARCTIC PJIOYI. N ri-:.
latitudes, which are almost strangers and are really unknown to the waters of Bering Sea ; for I did not observe, with the exception of ten or twelve perhaps, certainly no more, killer-whales, a single marine disturbance, or molestation, during the three seasons which I passed upon the islands, that could be regarded in the slightest degree inimical to the peace and life of the Pinnipedia ; and thus, from my observation, I am led to believe that it is not until they descend well to the south of the Aleutian Islands, and in the North Pacific, that they meet with sharks to any extent, and are dimin- ished by the butchery of the killer whales.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The whole eastern half of Bering Sea, in its en- tirety, is a single fish-spawning bank, nowhere deeper than fifty to seventy-five fathoms, averaging, perhaps, forty ; also, there are great reaches of fishing- shoals up and down the northwest coast, from and above the Straits of Fuca, bordering the entire southern, or Pacific coast, of the Aleutian Islands. The aggregate of cod, herring, and salmon which the seals find upon these vast icthyological areas of reproduction, must be simply enormous..., and fully equal to a most extravagant demand of the voracious appetites of Callorliini.
When, however, the fish retire from spawning here, there, and everywhere over these shallows of Alaska and the northwest coast, along by the end of September to the 1st of November, every year, I believe that the young fur- 330 OUR ARCTIC PJIOYI. N ri-:.
latitudes, which are almost strangers and are really unknown to the waters of Bering Sea ; for I did not observe, with the exception of ten or twelve perhaps, certainly no more, killer-whales, a single marine disturbance, or molestation, during the three seasons which I passed upon the islands, that could be regarded in the slightest degree inimical to the peace and life of the Pinnipedia ; and thus, from my observation, I am led to believe that it is not until they descend well to the south of the Aleutian Islands, and in the North Pacific, that they meet with sharks to any extent, and are dimin- ished by the butchery of the killer whales.
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