Figure 29. — The ocean off central and suuthern California showing bottom configuration. (From USCGS Chart No. 5002.) 



boat-hunting day .-"-^ From April to June 1965, 

 after the northward migration began, the num- 

 ber of seals seen per boat-hunting day was 

 25.9 (Fiscus and Kajimura, 1967). 



^^ Clifford H. Fiscus, Karl Niggol, and Ford Wllke. 

 1961. Pelagic fur seal investigations, California to British 

 Columbia, 1961. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Marine 

 Mammal Biological Laboratory, Seattle, Wash., 87 pp. 

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A group of seals is defined as one or more 

 seals that are feeding, traveling, or resting in 

 close association with each other. Grouping of 

 seals off California in 1966 (table C-6) was 

 similar to that in 1961^'' during the same period. 

 Single seals made up 31.4 percent of the total 

 number of seals observed in 1961 and 31.0 

 percent in 1966. In contrast, 50.6 percent of the 



-"^'See footnote 16. 



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