Bering Sea Dispute

BERING SEA DISPUTE, 1886–1911, pitted Canadian pelagic sealers against American conservationists and sealing interests. The hunt for the northern FUR SEAL began with Pacific coast FIRST NATIONS, who used the animals for food and then for pelts to trade with the HBC. In 1866 white traders inaugurated a pelagic hunt with the help of aboriginal hunters, who were transported with their canoes to the sealing grounds some distance off the west coast of VANCOUVER ISLAND. By the 1880s the sealing...

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