Project Information

Title: Monitoring, Habitat Use, and Trophic Interactions of Harbor Seals in PWS 00064-CLO

Project Year and Number: 2000: 00064-CLO

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2001: 01064-CLO, 1999: 99064, 1998: 98064, 1997: 97064, 1996: 96064, 1995: 95064, 1994: 94064, 1993: 93046, 1992: R073, 1992: MM05, 1991: MM05, 1990: MM05, 1989: MM05

Principal Investigator (PI): Kathy Frost (Alaska Department of Fish & Game)

Managing Agency: ADFG

Assisting Personnel: Sara Iverson, Lloyd Lowry, Mike Simpkins, Jay Ver Hoef

Research Location: Prince William Sound

Restoration Category: Monitoring

Injured Resources Addressed: Harbor Seals

Abstract: This project is the final year of an effort to monitor the status of harbor seals in Prince William Sound and investigate the hypothesis that food limitation to pups and juveniles has caused the ongoing decline. Aerial surveys will be conducted during molting to determine whether the population continues to decline, stabilizes, or increases. Trend analysis using Bayesian statistics will be completed and a manuscript submitted for publication. No additional field work other than the aerial surveys will be conducted. Fatty acids analysis will be conducted on blubber samples collected during Summer 1999, and development of mathematical models will be continued to estimate seal diets and whether they have changed both within the 1990s and since the 1970s.


Proposal: Not Available

Information and/or Products produced by this project:
Title Description Type Document(s)
Serologic survey (manuscript) Manuscript: “Serologic survey for Brucell app, phocid herpesvirus-1, phocid herpesvirus-2 and phocine distemper virus in harbor seals from Alaska” accepted for publication in JWD (notification only) Additional Report View (20 KB)

Reports:
Final Report: Final Report Not available. For current status, please contact us.

Publications from this Project: None Available