Estimating population size of Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardsi) at Children's Pool Beach in La Jolla, California, using photo-identification

• Main Author: Linder, Traci A.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2011
• Subjects: UCSD Dissertations; Academic Biology. (Discipline); Dissertations Academic as Topic; Pacific; Petersen; harbor seal; Phoca vitulina
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9n87h01f; http://n2t.net/ark:/20775/bb9045704c

Children's Pool Beach in La Jolla, CA is a Pacific harbor seal (Phoca vitulina richardsi) rookery at the center of a large legal controversy. Due to the heated contention surrounding this rookery, very few scientific studies have been done on the population of harbor seals that use this haul-ou...