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Rare 1893- Vol. 3 & 4 -FUR SEAL ARBITRATION -Tribunal at Paris -Post Purchase of Alaska Dispute over Control between U.S. and Britain. Fine binding. Exterior Boards loose. Fur Seals, Seized Canadian Ships, Maritime Sovereignty, Early Wildlife Conservation & More. confrontation between the United States and Great Britain over Alaska, control of the Bering Sea, international waters, wildlife conservation, and whether the U.S. could seize foreign ships outside its territorial waters. -After the United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, it acquired the enormously valuable fur-seal industry centered on Alaska's Pribilof Islands. The seals bred on American islands, but they migrated through the open Bering Sea. By the 1880s, Canadian and other sealing vessels were killing them at sea—often females traveling to or from the breeding grounds—and the U.S. feared the herds could be destroyed.