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Records: Captain Urey Lisiansky found seals seven feet long on the 
1 when he discovered it in October 1805 (Lisiansky, l8l4). Ship 1 
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officers killed four of them. Herr C. Isenbeck found several small seals 
■he island when he visited it in March 1828 (Rothschild, op. cit . ). 
Captain John Paty ( op . cit . ) stopped there in May 1857 and reported seals. 
Palmer and Munro collected a seal on Lisianski in early July 1891 (Rothschild 
op . cit.), but the skin was lost. Captain F. D. Walker of the schooner 
Kaalokai , on which Palmer and Munro visited the islands, reported ( 1909 ) 
n seals sleeping on the sand beach one hundred feet wide. John Cameron 
(1928) stopped twice at Lisianski some time in the l880 v s and l890*s to kill 
seals for meat. Wetmore (unpub. notes, 1923 ) found a few on the island in 
May 1923^ and collected two specimens. Kenyon and Rice (1959) made aerial 
surveys of the island in January and April 1958. They reported ( ibid .) 24l 
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Lults and 15 pups by 15 April 1958. Woodside and Kramer ( 1981 ) counted 
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adults and found one dead pup in March 1961. 
Population : The survey has counted seals on each visit. On the basis of 
actual counts the resident herd is between 150 and 200 animals. However, 
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ollected on Kure Atoll by the POBSP suggest that only one-fourth to 
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bird of the resident herd is on the beach at any one time. 
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hypothesis is proven the resident herd at Lisianski contains 4y0 to 300 
animals. Beach counts taken by the survey are: 209 adults, one pup and 
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ad pup in March I 963 ; 173 adults and 7 pups in March 1984; 143 adults 
and one pup in August 1984; 121 adults in September' 1984; I 72 adults and 15 
in March 1985; and l6l adults in July 1985 . 
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