STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE

occur from southern California north to the Bering Sea and west to the Okhotsk Sea and Honshu Island, Japan (Fig. 1). During the breeding season, approximately 74 % of the worldwide population is found on the Pribilof Islands in the southern Bering Sea, with the remaining animals spread throughout t...

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Main Authors: California Stock, Northern Fur Seals
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.566.767
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/sars/2013/po2013_northernfurseal-ca.pdf
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Summary:occur from southern California north to the Bering Sea and west to the Okhotsk Sea and Honshu Island, Japan (Fig. 1). During the breeding season, approximately 74 % of the worldwide population is found on the Pribilof Islands in the southern Bering Sea, with the remaining animals spread throughout the North Pacific Ocean (Lander and Kajimura 1982). Of the seals in U.S. waters outside of the Pribilofs, approximately 1 % of the population is found on