Bering Sea Anti-Poaching Operations

Bering Sea Anti-Poaching Operations
"Old Salts of the Square-Rigger Navy" on board USS Mohican, 1888, by H. W. Whitaker.
Date June 22 – October 5, 1891 Location Bering Sea, Pacific Ocean Result Anglo-American victory
Belligerents
United States U.S. Navy U.S. RCS U.S. Marines  United Kingdom Royal Navy Royal Marines	Canadian Poachers
Commanders and leaders
Charles S. Cotton Henry C. Cochrane	N/A
Strength
1 cruiser 3 sloops-of-war 3 steamers 2 gunboats 2 cutters[1]	N/A
Casualties and losses
None	4 schooners captured Poachers imprisoned in Unalaska

Bering Sea Anti-Poaching Operations were conducted in 1891 by the navies and marine corps' of the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Due to the near extinction of the seal population in the Bering Sea, the American and British governments dispatched a squadron of warships to suppress poaching activities, under the command of United States Navy Commander Charles S. Cotton.^[2]