Gilmore SEA OTTER (cont.)2 1931 through private sales he averaged $900 apiece on the skins. Swenson also states that during his 30 years of sailing & trapping on the whole Aleutian Chain, the numbers of sea otter have remained quite constant. The general opinion, according to him, is that the goat. Should allow a certain limited number to be trapped each year, and thus allow the trappers, whether white or native, to realize a profit there by. Here is a story which I have some doubts about. Swenson once landed a party of trappers on an inhabited island. These trappers, while walking through some tall grass near the beach, suddenly scared up 25-50 (?) sea otters, who flopped frantically towards the beach. The sea otter had evidently drawn up into the grass to rest. Oct. 7 Unalaska I was recently in- formed by a man who this spring was offered three sea otter skins for $75 in Kodiak, that sea otter pelts are