Project Information

Title: Monitoring, Habitat Use, and Trophic Interactions of Harbor Seals in PWS 96064

Project Year and Number: 1996: 96064

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2001: 01064-CLO, 2000: 00064-CLO, 1999: 99064, 1998: 98064, 1997: 97064, 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 will monitor the status of harbor seals in PWS and investigate the possible causes for the ongoing decline. Aerial surveys will be conducted to determine whether the population continues to decline, stabilizes, or increases. Seals will be satellite-tagged to describe their movements, use of haulouts, and hauling out and diving behavior. Samples of blood, blubber, whiskers, and skin will be collected to study diet, health and condition, and genetic relationships to other harbor seal populations.


Proposal: Not Available

Reports:
Annual Report FY96: View (4,812 KB)
Final Report: Final Report Not available. For current status, please contact us.

Publications from this Project: None Available