Caption: Domoic acid poisoning has impacted a range of pinniped species, including elephant seals, harbor seals, and
northern fur seals (pictured).
As of Friday, the Marine Mammal Center near Sausalito had taken in 85
northern fur seals, which live out in the Pacific Ocean's waters and islands and would only rarely be found on shore, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported Saturday.
Populations, microhabitat preference and effects of infestation of two species of Orthohalarachne (Halarachnidae: Acarina) in the
northern fur seal. Journal of wildlife diseases 16: 45-51.
Population biology of
northern fur seals at San Miguel Island, California.
animals Sex Facility location * M, F, Pacific coast, Species, age group, n=780J n = 643 n = 1,198 and residential ([double ([section]) ([paragraph]) status dagger]) Animal (species) California sea 365 301 662 lion (Zalophus californianus) Stellar sea lion 15 19 25 (Eumetopias jubatus)
Northern fur seal 26 15 38 (Callorhinus ursinus) Northern elephant 101 72 173 seal (Mirounga angustirostris) Ribbon seal 1 0 1 (Histriophoca fasciata) Hooded seal 3 1 0 (Cystophora cristata) Gray seal 45 18 0 (Halichoerus grypus) Harp seal (Phoca 17 18 0 groenlandica) Harbor seal 198 191 290 (P.
During the 1890s, an international controversy was developing over methods of harvesting
northern fur seals. Vessels from the U.S.
of of sightings group size harassments Gray whale (May-June only) 18 (1) 1.4 19 Dall's porpoise 521 3.9 3 Steller sea lion 153 53.4 1 Humpback whale 834 4.1 0
Northern fur seal 388 4.2 5 Minke whale 42 1.2 2 Harbor porpoise 18 4.9 0 Harbor seal 82 9.6 0 Sea otter 94 3.7 0 California sea lion 2 1.0 0 Fin whale 15 2.2 0 Sperm whale 7 1.6 0 Baird's beaked whale 10 9.4 0 Total 31 Prey species Prey species No.
Steller (1751) also described the breeding behavior of Steller sea lions and documented a shared Steller sea lion and
northern fur seal rookery on the southwest coast of Bering Island.
More than a million
northern fur seals set up breeding grounds each summer on its shores.
Historically,
northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) diet studies have relied upon analysis of stomach and intestinal contents collected from scientific takes or harvested animals (Wilke and Kenyon, 1957; Kajimura, 1984; Bigg and Fawcett, 1985; Sinclair et al., 1994) and, more recently, scat samples (Sinclair et al., 1996; Antonelis et al., 1997).
The decline in the
Northern fur seal population, widely expected to be the next big fishing v.
In this book he describes a 19-year study of the
northern fur seal, a heavily managed species, that was aimed at addressing very specific behavioral questions about a nearly 40-year decline in fur seal pup production.
Alaska fur seal - of Pacific coast from Alaska southward to California