National Marine Mammal Laboratory

3. Comprehensive Research (annual plans and investigations)

See bound reference cabinet for completes sets of investigations from all countries)
United States | Canada | Japan | USSR | Joint/International Research

3.A United States research (1934 – Present) (See also Pelagic (Commercial and Research) Sealing) (Also contains Fur Seal Investigations, work/operating plans, agent and manager annual reports etc. )

1940

1934 Report of USCG Cutter Chelan

Studies of the Alaska Fur Seal Herd 1944-1952

1947

Report on the experimental kill of 4 year old Fur seals, Pribilofs, AK

Report on the tagging of fur seal pups, St. Paul

Progress report on project 80: research on fur seals and other marine mammals

1949

Some Present Aspects of the Alaska fur seal herd

1950

Preliminary report on the aboriginal take of 41 female fur seals from the Sitka area (Kenyon’s visit to Sitka)

Report of Pelagic Fur Seal research off Japan (Wilke,1950) (See also Specimen Catalog and Japanese research 1950)

1951

Plans for St. Paul lab

1952

Field notes on pelagic fur seal research in CA and WA (Manzer)

Pelagic NW Coast and AK lengths, weights, tooth ridge counts, stomach examinations

1958

Pelagic Fur Seal Investigations in CA, OR, WA, and AK

1959

U.S. Memorandum on Current Knowledge Of Fur Seals

Biographical sketches of the staff of NMBL

1960

St. Matthew Isl. Survey

Plans for St. Paul building

Observations on Robben Isl. USSR (Scheffer)

Distribution Of Fur Seals by Reproductive Status, Sex and Area

1961

Visit to the Commander Isls. USSR (Kenyon)

Observations on Medny and Bering Isl. Kamchatka (Wilke, Roppel, Niggol)

1962

FASORAD Report 1962

1963

Visit to Robben Isl. USSR (Wilke)

Cruise report of M/V Bertha Ann Winter 1963 (Hunter)

1965

Expedition to Baja (Kenyon)

1966

Proposal for counting bulls on St. Paul Isl.

Veterinary Research, St. Paul

1968

Observation of Medny Isl. Kamchatka USSR-July 1968 (Johnson and Fiscus)

1969

Steller sea lions at Ugamak Isl. – June 1969

1971

Biographical Sketches

Project Resumes

1972

Marine Mammal Research Proposals

1978

Expanded Fur Seal Research Program Report

1981

Annual Report of the Pribilof Islands Program (includes 1982)

1987

Preliminary draft conservation plan for Pribilof fur seals

1989-

Long term studies of reproduction and survival: workshop to assess methods of assessing the magnitude of mortality of northern fur seals in marine debris

NMML Recommended research 1988-1992

3.B Canadian research (1946 – 1980)

1946

Report on a visit to the fur sealing grounds: Pribilof Isls. (Prefontaine and Carl)

1977

Studies of Captive Fur Seal Program Report #1

1978

Studies of Captive Fur Seal Program Report #2

1979

Studies of Captive Fur Seal Program Report #3

3.C Japanese research (1911 – 87)

>>1949

Statistics relating to the fur seal protection treaty

Japanese fur seal herd 1934

Japanese sources on sealing: fur seal and other catches historical data 1911-1943

On the estimates of the maximum sustainable productivity of the Pribilof herd

1949

Economic status of fur seals in Japan (Wilke)

Fur Seal Investigations S. Hokkaido and N. Honshu, 1949

Tags recovered from fur seals off the coast of Japan

1950

Japanese fur sealing

US/Japanese research off Japan (See also specimen catalog and U.S. research 1950)

Joint report off Japan (Wilke etc.) (Also in Migration-W. Pacific)

1952

Sex ratio and length of fetuses, weights and lengths of females (1952 Japanese collection)

Relation of Japanese fur seal populations and American and Asiatic herds

Tag recoveries

Fur Seal Poaching off Iwate and Miyagi prefectures Japan in 1952

Ages of fur seals, (1952 Japanese collection)

US pelagic fur seal research off the coast of Japan

1953

Relation of food habits to commercial fisheries

1956

Draft agreement on fur seal resources of the N. Pacific

Illustrations: age determination of fur seals by their canine teeth

1958

Estimation of pups abundance by tag recovery results

Japanese pelagic sealing research and techniques

1959

Correspondence 1954-1959

1960

Population study on the fur seal herd

Consideration on the sampling methods being applied to the current fur seal research

Studies in the dynamics and management of fish populations

Population dynamics

1961

Corrections of data 1958-1960

1963

Correspondence 1960-1963

Japanese views on the scientific research under the extended convention

Japanese views on the study of the quality of fur seal skins

Japanese views on the 1963 population estimates for the Pribilof Isls.

1967

Seal stomach contents

1968

Draft recommendations

Investigation on origin of net fragments on fur seals

1974

Measures necessary to make possible the maximum sustainable productivity of fur seal resources of the N. Pacific

Proposed research plans by Japan for closer ties between pelagic and land research

1975

Notes for Dr. Harry’s trip to Robben Isl., 1972-1975

1977

Whale distribution in the Bering Sea and N. Pacific in the summer of 1974

1978

Seasonal changes in the ovary of the northern fur seals

1979

Chemical composition of milk of marine mammals

1984

Investigations on North Pacific fur seal stock in 1984: Outline of the survey plan on entanglement of fur seals in fishing net fragments

1985

Investigations on North Pacific fur seal stock in 1985: Outline of the survey plan on entanglement of fur seals in fishing net fragments

1986

Japanese documents of fur seal scientific meeting

3.D Soviet research (1937 – 86)

>> 1958

Research results 1958

Reorganization of the fur economy on the Commander Isls. (1937)

1959

Summary research 1959

List of tags used 1957, 1958, 1959

1961

Age and sex composition of seals taken on Robben Isl., 1961

Expected tag recoveries 1957-1961 by age

1963

Fur seal tags Robben and Commander Isls. 1957-1963

1972

Estimates of optimum sustainable kill from Robben Isl. herd

On maximum sustainable yield of fur seals on Commander Isls.

Present condition of the Commander Isl. fur seal population and the extent of its approaching the level of maximum sustainable yield

Classification of females killed on Robben Isl. in 1969

Draft recommendations of SSC

Possible harvest of pups

1973

Experimental collection of male gray pups by USSR

Information from the USSR on injuries inflicted by discarded fishing gear to fur seals on Robben Isl.

Investigations on Parasitology Experimental kill of gray fur seals

Studying of the fur seal female biology

Record of tagging Soviet Isls., 1957-1973

1976

Gray fur seals as an industry

1977

Background for the advisability to continue tagging of pups by metal tags

To the problem on the effect of the fishery on the fur seal numbers with their reproduction areas on USSR Isls.

1978

Appraisal of proposed gray seal harvests by USSR

Grounds of the reasonable sealing of gray fur seal males

1984

Main factors characterizing both the condition of fur seal populations on the rookeries of Soviet islands and their harvesting

3.E Joint/International research

3.E.00 General

Limited pelagic sealing in the waters off Japan (1950’s)

Minutes of the 1952 conference on the Joint report

Joint fur seal investigations: Western Pacific Mid-water trawling opportunities (Taylor)

NOAA Technical Report 51 Status, biology and ecology of fur seals (June 87)

3.E.01 Exchange of international fur seal scientists

3.E.02 Collaboration with other "Non fur seal" scientists

3.E.03 Fur Seal Data Workshop, 1978

3.E.04 US Canada Joint Pelagic Report 1958-1974

Report on 1^st Planning Meeting of N. Fur Seal Pelagic Research Committee

Pelagic Biology of the Northern Fur Seal

US-Canada Pelagic Data Analysis

3.E.05 Standing Scientific Committee

3.E.05.A General

3.E.05.B Reports of Investigations

1958-1961

1962-1963

1967-1972

1973-1976

1977-1980

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