North Pacific Fur Seal Convention

NORTH PACIFIC FUR SEAL CONVENTION, 7 July 1911, was an agreement between Canada, Russia, Japan and the US dividing the FUR SEAL harvest of the Pribilof, Commander, Kurile and Robben islands. The agreement ended the pelagic hunt for fur seals that had been carried out since the 1860s by a sealing fleet based in VICTORIA. In return for abandoning the hunt, Canada was compensated with $200,000 and a percentage of the annual value of the land catch still taken by the other signatories. By the late...

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