Harbour seals consume more juvenile and adult salmon in estuaries than elsewhere in the Strait of Georgia

• Main Authors: Majewski, Sheena, Nordstrom, Chad, Thomas, Austen C., Trites, Andrew W.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Western CEDAR 2018
• Subjects: Harbour seal diet; Estuary; Non-estuary; Fresh Water Studies; Life Sciences; Marine Biology; Natural Resources and Conservation; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Fraser River; Hake; harbour seal
• Online Access: https://cedar.wwu.edu/ssec/2018ssec/allsessions/453; https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2888&context=ssec

Recent studies of harbour seal diets (2012-2014) have been used to estimate the amounts of salmon consumed by seals in the Strait of Georgia. However, these diet data have primarily come from estuary habitats, and may not be representative of all seals. We analysed 1,317 scat samples collected at an...