Sujet
The International Fisheries Exhibition: model to illustrate seal-hunting, Newfoundland Section, 1883 Creator: Unknown.
Légende
The International Fisheries Exhibition: model to illustrate seal-hunting, Newfoundland Section, 1883. 'The seal-hunting, an occupation of great value, was formerly carried on by sailing vessels; but twenty-four large steamers are now employed, and these often make two sealing voyages in the season, which continues from March 10 to May 10, during which period the ice floes are drifting about upon which the adult seals have come to whelp...The average capture is from 300,000 to 400,000, but as many as 700,000 have been taken in a single season...The young seal loses its white fur in three weeks, and the killing of the young animals under this age is prohibited. It is the adult skin and the fat which have the highest commercial value...The young seals are thus in their best condition at the beginning of April, or at the time when they take to the water. The animals when killed on the ice are cut open, and the skin, with its layer of fat, is stripped off, the fat being separated from the skin by the knife. This fat is cut up and put into steam vats and the oil steamed out...The tanning and production of the leather is done entirely in this country, nearly all our patent leather...being produced from the Newfoundland seal skins'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.
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