Notes on the Food of Fur Seal, Sea-Lion, and Harbor Porpoise
- 1 July 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 16 (3) , 396-397
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3796662
Abstract
Over 99% of the food of 148 mature female fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) collected near Sitka, Alaska in Jan. and Mar. was herring (Clupea pallasii). Food remains disgorged by seals on the Pribilof Is. are predominantly from small fishes of the fam. Gadidae. The stomach contents of 2 nursing female northern sea-lions (Eumetopias jubata) from St. Paul Island included sand lances (Ammodytes tobianus personatus), halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepsis), flounders (Pleuronectidae), cod (Gadus macrocephalus) and pollack (Theragra chalcogramma). A harbor porpoise (Phocoena vomerina) from near Port Townsend, Washington had fed entirely on herring.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Alaska Fur Seals, Callorhinus ursinus, Observed off San Francisco Bay, CaliforniaJournal of Mammalogy, 1951