Table 31.— Record of radio 

 Island, 1969 



transmitters and epoxy-coated tags attached to male seals ^ 2 years old, St. Paul 



Frequency 



Tag 



numbers 



(Blue X-series) 



Attached 



Hauling 

 ground 



Date 



Located or recaptured 



Hauling 

 ground 



Date 



Remarks 



30.19 



610 



POL 



23 June POL 



9 July 



Killed; had no radio or harness 



Lost harness; released with new 

 harness and radio 



Lost harness; released with no 

 radio 



Killed; no harness 



Radio failed 29 June; radio and 

 harness recovered 



Killed; had no radio or harness 



Killed 



Killed 



Table 32. --Weights of bacula, male seals >2 years old, 

 St. Paul Island, 22-26 July 1968 



Table 33. --Weights of paired testes, male seals >2 years 

 old, St. Paul Island, 22-26 June 1968 



1_/ Outliers 29 and 49 dg. not included. 

 2/ Outliers 33 dg. not included. 

 3/ Outlier 56 dg. not included. 



between females hauled out on the Pribilof 

 Islands and those still at sea during com- 

 parable times of the year. The data are com- 

 pared in tables 34, 35, and 36. We could not, 

 however, make any conclusions because the 

 pelagic samples are too small. 



Raymond E. Anas, Alton Y. Roppel, 

 and Clifford H. Fiscus. 



Body Length of Male Seals, 



Ages 2 to 5 Years 



The minimum body length limit of 42 inches 

 (107 cm.), tip of nose to tip of tail, in effect 

 for several years as a means of permitting 

 small (mostly 2-year-old) seals to escape, was 

 removed for 2 to 8 days in July from 1964 to 

 1968 and during the entire killing season in 

 1969. During these periods, all males without 



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