Incidental Catch of a Ribbon Seal (Phoca fasciata) in the Central North Pacific
On 30 June 1981 a juvenile male ribbon seal . was incidentally caught in the central North Pacific . by the Japanese salmon fishing vessel Hokucho Maru No. 2. . Before the crew cast the seal overboard, one of us (WTE) was able to photograph it . recover its baculum and measure standard length (Schef...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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The Arctic Institute of North America
1983
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Online Access: | https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65345 |
Summary: | On 30 June 1981 a juvenile male ribbon seal . was incidentally caught in the central North Pacific . by the Japanese salmon fishing vessel Hokucho Maru No. 2. . Before the crew cast the seal overboard, one of us (WTE) was able to photograph it . recover its baculum and measure standard length (Scheffer, 1967) and blubber thickness. . To our knowledge, the record we report here is only the fifth pelagic record of a ribbon seal and the first pelagic sighting south of the Aleutian Islands in the central North Pacific. |
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