Excerpt from Seal Fisheries The catch of 1883 had been a fairly prosperous one, the total exceeding He had much pleasure in moving a hearty vote of thanks to Captain Temple for his able and exhaustive paper. Major sewell-gana (chilian Commissioner), in second ing the motion, remarked that in consequence of the great development of seal fisheries in and about the Straits of Magellan, the Chilian Government had lately appointed a Commission to study the question, and they were about to introduce a law to enforce a close time, and to extend to that region the regulations of the civil code with regard to fishing. 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.