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ANOTHER year has passed and no steps have been taken to put some restriction upon the cruel and wasteful manner in which the seal fishery is prosecuted. Warning after warning has been given, and still nothing has been done. In 1868 Dr. Brown wrote (Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 440): “Supposing the sealing prosecuted with the same vigour as at present, I have little hesitation in stating my opinion that, before thirty years shall have passed away the seal-fishery, as a source of commercial revenue, will have come to a close.” This season the Dundee vessels have been turning their attention to the Newfoundland seals, for, says a paragraph in the Daily News, “Capt. Adams has for some years been of opinion that that ground [the Greenland seal-fishery] is practically used up, and hence his visit to Newfoundland.” The small success of the Greenland sealers this season fully corroborates Capt. Adams's opinion, and forms a practical comment upon Dr. Brown's prediction!
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SOUTHWELL, T. The Greenland Seal Fishery. Nature 16, 42 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016042b0
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