Seasonal and Spatial Differences in Diet in the Western Stock of Steller Sea Lions (Eumetopias Jubatus)

• Main Authors: Sinclair, E. H., Zeppelin, T. K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2002
• Subjects: Feature Articles; Pacific; Atka; Theragra chalcogramma
• Online Access: http://jmammal.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/83/4/973; https://doi.org/10.1644/1545-1542(2002)083<0973:SASDID>2.0.CO;2

We identified prey remains from 3,762 scats (feces) of Steller sea lions ( Eumetopias jubatus ). Scats were collected from 1990–1998 on island sites across most of the range of the United States western stock of the species. Walleye pollock ( Theragra chalcogramma ) and Atka mackerel ( Pleurogrammus...