Frustrating when there's such heavy emphasis on definitional usage of words in some situations but then not in ones like this.

The stem says "suggested" but its not suggested or implied that sea otter hunting was prohibited -- it is explicitly stated.

Given the other choices, this was what I determined the right answer to be still, but it ended up taking me way too long in the estimated timing.

There's no talk of how methods changed post 19th century just that they changed in the 19th century. There is no indication that it has so the correct answer being how they differ from today does not follow logically.

#5 i couldn't tell which way you were going -- if politicians were suppose to be elites or if the catch was we were incorrectly assuming that. A bit confusing id say.