The Bering Sea Epopee

 

 

1655 — Since that year starts the period of exploitation if live resources of the Bering Sea: hunting of morses on the Chukotka coast of the Bering Sea by the Yakut Cassak: “And we put into the Majesty’s fisc, hunters and others, that fish’s teeth weighting 3 poods (1 pood = 36 pounds = 16, 38 kg) and the number is 14”.
1742-1770 — for 28 years completely was exterminated Steller’s cow.
1742-1755 — completely exterminated sea-apes on the Bering island. Restored only 200 years later.
1748-1911 — for this period of exploitation the population of fur-seals decreased from two million to 9 thousand animals on the Commandor Islands.
1789 — the first American whaler appeared in the Okhotsk, Bering and Chukotka Seas.
1803 — warehouses of the Russian-American company stockpiled 800.000 pelts of fur-seals. Administration of the RAC decided to demolish 700.000 pelts not to beat down the price at the market.
1848 — beginning of the “whale fever” after the successful hunting of captain Royce on the whaler “Superior”
1849 — 154 American whalers hunted the animals near the Russian shores. They got 206 thousand 850 barrels of fat and 2 million 654 pounds of the baleen.
1847-1861 — annually a fleet of 200 whalers hunted the animals (they came from Boston, New-Bedford and Rhode-Island) near the Russian shores.
1868-1874 — for 6 years American whalers killed 85 thousand morses.
1868-1888 — for 20 years the whalers killed already 200 thousand morses.
1900 — the crew of the hunting American schooner “Pie” headed by captain Proth during one voyage killed a thousand and a half of morses on Semenov spit on the Karaginski Island. This breeding ground has not been restored until now.
1936 January 19 — Directive ? 31 of the Kamchatka Joint-Stock Society founds, in the structure of the Karaga fish processing plant, located in the bay of False News on the Karaginski Island, the base of active experimental catch for work in the open sea.
1959-1961 — the catch of the Bering Sea flat-fish dropped from 196,9 thousand metric centners (100 kg) to 1,5 thousand
1959-1968 — the joint Primorski-Kamchatka-Sakhalin fishery fleet destroyed the resources of the Olyutora herring (maximum catch - 1.769,3 thousand metric centners in 1963)
1960 — Fareastern fishing fleet of the USSR destroyed the resources of the Bristol perch and flat-fish near the shores of the USA.
1977 — Most of the littoral states introduced 200-miles marine economic zones as the result of which was the sharp increase of the catch by soviet fishermen in the USSR economic zone from 29,9% in 1975 up to 36% in 1983 and practically to 100% at present.

 

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