Table <;8. — Age and sex of fur seals collected pelagically by the U.S.A. Dff California by month-'- 

 [Combined data for 1958, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965, and 1966] 



Month 



Seals 

 collected 



Males ^ 



Females 



Females 



Ages l-<; 



?es 5-20+ 



-"- Data for 1958, 1959, and 1961 from North Pacific Fur Seal Commission Report on Investigations 

 from 1958 to 1961 (1964); data for 1964 from Fiscus and Kajimura (1965); data for 1965 from 

 Fiscus and Kajimura (1967). 



^ All males are age 4 or younger, except one 5-year-old collected in 1964. 



Table 49. — Tag recoveries from fur seals collected pelagically by the U.S.A. off 



California in 1966 



[ Figures in parentheses indicate animals that had lost tags; they are included in the totals] 



Age 



Year 



of 



tagging 



Tag 



Seals 

 tagged 



Tag recovery 



Seals collected in 

 each age group-"- 



Years 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



12 



1963 

 1962 

 1961 

 1960 

 1959 

 1958 

 1957 

 1954 



P 

 

 N 

 M 

 L 

 K 

 J 

 G 



Number 



24,971 

 49,908 

 49,921 

 59,981 

 49,881 

 49,917 

 49,842 

 10,000 



Number 



Number 



Number 



Number 



30 

 68 

 66 

 35 

 46 

 43 

 20 

 16 



Table does not include seals born in years when no tagging was done, or year classes from 

 which no tagged seals were taken. 



Cape Alava, Wash. (lat. 48°10'N.). During 

 the same period, beachcombers found 15 seals 

 that had been tagged on the Pribilof Islands. 

 In 1965, a seal tagged in 1959 on Medny Island 

 was recovered in British Columbia.-'-' These 

 four are the only tagged seals from the western 

 Pacific Ocean that have been recovered in the 

 eastern Pacific Ocean south of Unimak Pass, 

 Alaska. 



■"-'g. C. Pike, I. B. MacAskle, and A. Craig. Report on 

 Canadian pelagic fur seal research in 1965. Fisheries Re- 

 search Board of Canada, Nanaimo, B. C. [Processed.] 



SIZE 



Lengths and weights are given for pregnant 

 and nonpregnant females collected in 1966 in 

 tables C-7 to C-10, and for males in tables 

 C-11 and C-12. Mean lengths and weights of 

 male and female fetuses collected in 1966 by 

 10-day periods are shown intableC-13. 



REPRODUCTION 



Records of the reproductive condition of 

 female fur seals are used in determining 



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