TABLE 10.--Summary of reproductive condition of tagged female seals sampled from the kill, 

 St. George Island. 3, 5. 13-17, and 20-23 August 1962 



Reproductive 

 condition 



Age in years 



10 



10 + 



Total 



P oit partiim : 



Primiparoui: 



number................ - - 2 14 



percent ......... ,.,... - - 2 28 



Multiparoui: 



number - - - 1 



percent _;; ; ; 2 



Total po«t partum : 



number - - 2 15 



percent ............... - - 2 30 



Nonpregnant ; 



NuUiparoui : 



number 12 37 83 35 



percent 100 100 98 70 



PrimiparouB: 



number ..„......, - - - - 



percent ................ . - - - 



MuLtiparous: 



number „,„„„„,„„, . - - - 



percent ..„..,.,....,... _^ ; ; - 



Total nonpregnant: 



number 12 37 83 35 



percent 100 100 98 70 



Grand total ..........ocoo 12 37 85 50 



Percent ....„..„.. „ 6 18 42 25 



Sample size in percent of kill: 2.5 



Sample size in percent of total tagged females: 100.0 



females in 1962. A total of 3,718 tags were 

 recovered; 2,417 checkmarks from animals 

 that had lost their tags were recorded. Ap- 

 pendix tables 21 and 22 provide additional 

 details on tag recoveries. 



Six females and fourteen males tagged on 

 the western Pacific breeding grounds were 

 recovered on the Pribilof Islands in 1962 

 (table 14). 



Tagging — Pups 



Fifty thousand tags of the 0- series were 

 attached to pups in 1962. Of these, 40,000 

 were used on St. Paul Island and 10,000 on 

 St. George Island. Tags were allotted to each 

 rookery according to the proportion of harem 

 bulls counted on that rookery. The rookeries 



7 

 47 



15 

 8 



23 



12 



3 



1 



26 

 13 



173 

 86 



174 



87 



200 



and number of pups tagged on each are listed 

 in table 15. A record of pups tagged on the 

 Pribilof Islands since 1940 is given in ap- 

 pendix table 29. 



Tagging was completed in 6.5 days during 

 the period 27 August to 5 September on St. 

 Paul Island and in 2 days on St. George 

 Island, 27-28 August. All tags used in 1962 

 conformed to the specifications outlined in the 

 1960 ' report of field activities. Each tag was 

 attached to the rear edge of the right fore 



'Carl E. Abegglen, AltonY.Roppel andFordWilke. 

 1960. Alaska Fur Seal Investigations, Pribilof Islands, 

 Alaska. Report of field activities, June-October 1960, 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Marine Mammal 

 Biological Laboratory, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 Seattle Wash. [Processed]. 



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