Appendix 1 



FIELD STUDIES OF SEA OTTERS, 



1954-66 



From 1949 to 1954, Refuge Manager R. D. Jones, Jr., reported 

 sea otter observations. In the winter of 1950-51 he attempted a 

 sea otter transplant. Dr. Robert Rausch and others of the U.S. 

 Public Health Service studied and reported on the helminth para- 

 sites of the sea otter. These studies and the reports of other 

 observers are reviewed elsewhere in this report. The purpose of 

 this chronological list is to record the field activities of the U.S. 

 Fish and Wildlife Service under the sea otter study program which 

 actually began in 1954 but was not formally begun until 1955. 

 Appendix 2 summarizes material gathered from 1955 through 

 1965. 



Aleut laborers who participated in various phases of sea otter 

 field work include the late Fred Bezezekoff (Nikolski), Anton 

 Bezezekoff (Nikolski), John Nevzeroff (Atka), Innokenty Golodoff 

 (Atka), and David Zaochni (Atka). 



The expeditions listed below include a cumulative time of more 

 than 2 years and 9 months of field work. 



1954 



10 February to U April. Aleutian Islands. At Amchitka Island, field studies 

 of sea otters. (D, Hooper, R. D. Jones, C. M. Kirkpatrick, C. J. Lensink, 

 D. E. Stullken, and F. Wilke.) 



1955 



15-17 March. Shumagin Islands. Observe sea otters at Simeonof, Little 



Koniuji, and Herendeen Islands. Transportation aboard M/V Paragon 



(Kenyon, Lensink, and Wilke). 

 27 March to U April. Aleutian Islands. At Amchitka Island capture and hold 



sea otters for transplant. (Jones, Kenyon, Lensink, and Wilke.) 

 9-10 April. Transplant attempt. Liberate sea otters at Otter Island, Pribilof 



Islands. 



H-15 April. Shumagin Islands. Attempt to capture sea otters at Simeonof 

 Island. (Kenyon and Wilke.) 



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