People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — No Revision Requireds [ARTICLE]

No Revision Requireds

Ottawa, Ont., March 3. —From an official document which has been laid before parliament, it is evident the Canadian authorities are resisting the pressure from the United States government for a revision of the Behring Sea regulations on ttfe ground that the obvious intention of the reprisal is to destroy the Canadian industry of pelagic sealing. Hon. Mr. Costigan, minister of marine and fisheries, shows from statistics that in spite of harassing regulations the sealing industry is not decreasing in importance. The Canadian yield for 1895 was 13,000 skins more than the average for the past seven years. The report concludes that as the sealß are not becoming extinct the need for a revision of the regulations does not exist.