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Japanese Economic Exploitation of Central Pacific Seabird Populations, 1898-1915 (1998)
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Japanese Economic Exploitation of Central Pacific Seabird Populations, 1898-1915 (1998)
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At the turn of the century, Japanese feather and plumage hunters visited most of the isolated, uninhabited atolls of the central Pacific Ocean. The seabird populations of these atolls were decimated to supply exotic feathers for the millinery market to meet an increasing demand created by the European fashion industry. Drawing on scattered archival records, this article reviews the history and dimensions of the feather trade in the Central Pacific and describes the responses of the affected...