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A Synthesis of Laaquda$\hat{\mathbf{x}}$ (Northern Fur Seal) Community Surveys and Commercial Fishery Data in the Pribilof Islands Marine Ecosystem, Alaska

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022
Indigenous communities on the Pribilof Islands have longstanding cultural and economic ties to their marine ecosystem and, in particular, to laaqudan (in Unangam Tunuu) or northern fur seals (NFS; Callorhinus ursinus).
Lauren Divine, Megan J. Peterson Williams, Jeremy Davies, Michael LeVine, Bruce Robson   +4 more
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Genetic assignment of fisheries bycatch reveals disproportionate mortality among Alaska Northern Fulmar breeding colonies. [PDF]

Evol Appl, 2022
Global fisheries kill millions of seabirds annually through bycatch, but little is known about population‐level impacts, particularly in species that form metapopulations. U.S.
Baetscher DS, Beck J, Anderson EC, Ruegg K, Ramey AM, Hatch S, Nevins H, Fitzgerald SM, Carlos Garza J.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

<i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> infection in domestic cats and northern fur seals of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska. [PDF]

Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl
Disseminated toxoplasmosis has been described in northern fur seals, however little is known about the significance and epidemiology of this pathogen in free ranging populations.
Dawant T, Gerhold R, Scott D, Su C, Divine L, Williams M, Ream R, Gelatt T, Duncan C.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Current and future habitat suitability of northern fur seals and overlap with the commercial walleye pollock fishery in the eastern Bering Sea. [PDF]

Mov Ecol
Background Understanding the abiotic and biotic drivers of species distribution is critical for climate-informed ecosystem management. We aimed to understand habitat selection of northern fur seals in the eastern Bering Sea, a declining population that ...
McHuron EA, Hazen EL, Pelland NA, Kearney KA, Cheng W, Hermann AJ, Ream RR, Sterling JT.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Biological and Physical Environmental Drivers of Diet Variation in Northern Fur Seals. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
The eastern Bering is a productive high‐latitude ecosystem characterized by high interannual variability in physical environmental conditions that impact biological communities.
McHuron EA, Sterling JT, Luxa K, Thorson J, Towell R, Ream RR, Zeppelin T.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Comparing non-breeding distribution and behavior of red-legged kittiwakes from two geographically distant colonies. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2021
Knowledge of non-breeding distributions is a crucial component to seabird conservation, as conditions during the non-breeding period can play an important role in regulating seabird populations. Specifically, if seabirds from different colonies share the
Drummond BA, Orben RA, Christ AM, Fleishman AB, Renner HM, Rojek NA, Romano MD.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Polar bears and expanding sea ice in the Mid Holocene Aleutian Islands, Alaska. [PDF]

Sci Rep
The archaeological record offers the opportunity to infer the effects of regional climatic shifts on species distributions and human-animal interactions.
Parker LD, West CF, Tatum KH, Etnier M, Bethke B, Reedy K, Shellikoff N, Hofman CA.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

First-Year Survival of Northern Fur Seals (Callorhinus ursinus) Can Be Explained by Pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) Catches in the Eastern Bering Sea

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021
The Pribilof northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) herd in the eastern Bering Sea has declined by ~70% since the 1970s, for elusive reasons. Competition for pollock (Gadus chalcogramma) with the commercial fishery has been suspected as a contributing ...
Jeffrey W. Short, Harold J. Geiger, Lowell W. Fritz, Jonathan J. Warrenchuk   +3 more
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Evaluating the impacts of reduced sampling density in a systematic fisheries-independent survey design

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Fisheries-independent surveys provide critical data products used to estimate stock status and inform management decisions. While it can be possible to redistribute sampling effort to improve survey efficiency and address changing monitoring needs in the
Lukas DeFilippo, Stan Kotwicki, Lewis Barnett, Jon Richar, Michael A. Litzow, William T. Stockhausen, Katie Palof   +6 more
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Tuman alaĝux^ agliisaax^tan (Take care of the ocean): A new vision for Indigenous co-management in marine waters of the US

Parks Stewardship Forum, 2022
The Pribilof Islands are among the most unique and important places in the world. These islands provide vital breeding and feeding habitat for more than half of the world’s population of laaqudan (as they are called in Unangam Tunuu, Native language of ...
Marissa Merculieff, Amos Philemonoff, Lauren Divine   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source