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An early proposal for conserving the southern seal fishery†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

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Polar Record , Volume 12 , Issue 78 , September 1964 , pp. 313 - 316
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page 314 note 1 Charles Jenkinson (1727–1808), Baron Hawkesbury (later Lord Liverpool).

page 314 note 2 Charles Stanhope (1753–1816), third Earl of Stanhope.

page 314 note 3 In the spring of the following year, 1789, an incident occurred between a Spanish naval patrol and a British whaler in Patagonian waters which occasioned a petition from the London merchants beseeching the Council of Trade and Plantations to consider this interruption of their fisheries. P.R.O. BT/5, p 388–9; BT 6/95, p 185–6.

page 314 note 4 Isla de los Estados.

page 314 note 5 The total imported products of the British Southern Whale Fishery for 1788 (including seal skins) totalled £90,599, the average value of the cargo of a single vessel being about £2000.

page 316 note 1 The value of seal skins at this date was 2s. each.