Revised 10/31/2002 HARBOR SEAL (Phoca vitulina richardsi):

• Main Authors: Washington Inland, Waters Stock, Stock Definition, Geographic Range
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: seals in the U.S. Pacific Northwest (shaded area; Baja; Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; McAllister; Pacific; harbor seal; Phoca vitulina; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.294.5034; http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/po2002sehr-wain.pdf

Harbor seals inhabit coastal and estuarine waters off Baja California, north along the western coasts of the continental U.S., British Columbia, and Southeast Alaska, west through the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands, and in the Bering Sea north to Cape Newenham and the Pribilof Islands. They hau...