Excerpt from Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year 1936: With Appendixes The herds of blue foxes on St. Paul and St. George Islands require little care and produce sizable yields Of pelts each year. Salted seal meat and prepared rations are fed to the animals during the winter months when the supply of natural food is scarce. In the 1935 - 36 season 220 blue and 9 white fox skins were taken on St. Paul Island and 799 blue and 6 white skins on St. George Island, a total of Six foxes trapped on St. Paul Island and 116 on St. George Island were marked and released for breeding stock. The reserve includes also many animals that did not enter the traps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.