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Author Busch, Briton Cooper.

Title The war against the seals : a history of the North American seal fishery / Briton Cooper Busch
Published Kingston [Ont.] : McGill-Queen's University Press ; Gloucester [Gloucestershire] : A. Sutton, 1985

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 MELB  639.290973 BUS-W  AVAILABLE
Description xviii, 374 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Includes index
Summary Concentrates on the fur seals of the Bering Sea and the harp seals of the Newfoundland hunt. Reveals the consequences of an industry's killing of more than 50,000,000 seals in a century and a half
Analysis North America Coastal waters Mammals: Seals Commercial hunting, 1800-1984
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [319]-361
Subject Sealing -- History.
Sealing -- Canada -- History.
Sealing -- United States -- History.
LC no. 85199977
ISBN 0773505784