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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened at Paris Under the Treaty Between the United States of America and Great Britain, Vol. 6: Concluded at Washington February 20, 1892, for the Determination of Questions Between the Two Governments Concerning the Jurisdictional Rights of the United States in the Waters of Bering Sea
Migrations. 27. Such movements are, however, subordinate to a more general one of migration, in conformity with which the fur seals of the North Pacific travel northward to the breeding islands in the spring and return to the southward in the autumn, following two main lines, one of which approxi mates to the western coast of North America, while the other skirts the Asiatic coast. These animals which pursue the first-mention ed migration-route, for the most part breed upon the Pribyloff Islands in summer, and spend the win ter in that part of the ocean adjacent to, or lying off, the coast of British Columbia. Those following the second route breed, in the main, on the Commander Islands, and winter off the coasts of Japan. The comparative proximity of the breeding islands frequented by the seals pertaining to these two migration-tracts during the summer insures a certain interrelation and interchange of seals between the two groups, to an extent not fully known, and which doubtless varies much in different years.
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