Intro -- The Seal Hunt: Cultures, Economies and Legal Regimes -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Where are we on Seals? -- 2 Seals and Humans: A Troubled Relationship? -- 3 A Brief Introduction to Seals -- 4 The Characters of Law -- 4.1 Law and Knowledge -- 4.2 Law as Expression -- 4.3 Are Objectivity and Expression in Law Adversaries? -- 5 A Short Explanation of the Content of the Book -- 2 Cultures and Economies -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Northern Hemisphere -- 2.1 Northern Atlantic Ocean -- 2.1.1 Eastern Canadian Seal Hunts -- 2.1.2 Iceland -- 2.2 Inuit Seal Hunts in the Davis Strait -- 2.2.1 Historical Overview -- 2.3 North Pacific -- 2.3.1 The Pribilof Islands -- 2.3.2 The Bering Sea and Bering Strait -- 2.4 Sea of Okhotsk and Sea of Japan -- 2.4.1 Historical Overview -- 2.4.2 Contemporary Issues -- 2.5 Jan Mayen, Barents Sea and White Sea -- 2.6 Baltic Sea and North Sea -- 2.6.1 Historical Overview -- 2.6.2 Contemporary Issues -- 2.7 Lake Sealing -- 3 The Southern Hemisphere -- 3.1 South Georgia -- 3.1.1 Historical Overview -- 3.1.2 Contemporary Issues -- 3.2 South America -- 3.3 Bass Strait, New Zealand and Macquarie Island -- 3.3.1 Historical Overview -- 3.3.2 Contemporary Issues -- 3.4 South, Southwest and Southeast Africa -- 4 Conclusion -- 3 Legal Regimes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Defunct Multilateral Regimes -- 2.1 The North Atlantic -- 2.1.1 The Jan Mayen Seal Fishery Treaty, 1875 -- 2.1.2 Finnish-Soviet Sealing Regimes in the Northeast Atlantic, 1922-1944 -- 2.1.3 International Convention for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries, 1949-1978 -- 2.1.4 Agreement on Measures for Regulating the Catch and Conserving Stocks of Seals in the Northeastern Part of the Atlantic Ocean, 1957
