Table A-25. — Record of tags applied-"- to male seals 

 selected as yearlings and. as 2-, 3-, and 'i-year-olds 

 on the basis of body length or size, St. Paul Island, 

 1961-63 and 1965-68 



Age category 

 and year 



Tag 

 series 



Tag 

 numbers 



Effective 

 tags^ 



Table A-26. — Seal pups tagged and checkmarked, 

 St. Paul Island, 5-17 September 1968 



Rookery 



Tag numbers 

 (U-series) 



Pups 

 marked-'- 



Yearlings ^ Number 



1961 M 1-2000 754 



1962 N 50001-51000 929 



1963 50001-51000 799 



1965 IR 1-1000 991 



1966 IS 20001-21500 1,A95 



1967 IT 1-1500 835 



1968 lU 20001-21500 7U 



Ages 2-U 



1966 2S 20001-31500 1,';83 



1967 2T 1-1500 1,220 



1968 2U 30001-31500 1,<495 



■'■ Each seal was double tagged; one tag was attached 

 to each front flipper at the hairline. Some seals with 

 tags that had been attached when they were pups were 

 given another tag. 



^ Total number of seals tagged within the series. 



•^ Seals of both sexes were intentionally tagged In 

 1961-63, and 1965. Only males were intentionally tagged 

 in 1966-68. 



Number 



Zapadni 2501- 



Zapadni Reef 3601- 



Little Zapadni.. 3901- 



Reef A551- 



Gorbatch 6651- 



Polovina 6801- 



Polovina Cliffs. 7101- 



Little Polovina. 7801- 



Vostochni 9001- 



Tolstoi 10701- 



Lukanin 11701- 



Kitovi 11951- 



Total 



9,200 



Tags were attached to the rear edge of 

 the left front flipper at the hairline; as a 

 checkmark, a V-notch was cut into the leading 

 edge of the same flipper near the tip. No pups 

 were tagged and checkmarked on Morjovi Rookery. 



Table A-27. — Seal pups tagged and checkmarked, 

 St. George Island, 26-27 August 1968 



Rookery 



Tag numbers 

 (U-series) 



Pups 

 marked-"- 



Table A- 28. --Record of 714 yearling male seals 

 tagged, St. Paul Island, September and October 

 1968 



Area 



Tag numbers 

 ( 2U-series) 



Effective 

 tags^ 



Zapadni -South 1-700 



Staraya Artil 701-1000 



East Reef-East 



Cliffs 1001-1500 



North 1501-2500 



Total 



Number 

 2 675 



300 



500 

 1,000 

 2,475 



Number 



■"- Tags were attached to the rear edge of the 

 left front flipper at the hairline; as a check- 

 mark, a V-notch was cut into the leading edge 

 of the same flipper near the tip. No tags were 

 discarded in 1968 as unfit for application. 



^ A total of 675 tags within the series 1-700 

 were used. 



English Bay and Zapadni. 



Northeast Point 



Polovina 



Reef 



Total 



■"- Number of tags used within the series; in addi- 

 tion to the number of effective tags listed, two 

 tags were attached to 2-year-olds, one (lU-20051) 

 to a seal with Soviet tag Y2875 and one (lU- 20176) 

 to an untagged seal. 



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