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Northern Fur Seal Rookery Photo Archive: Aerial And Ground-Level Photos, Pribilof Islands, Alaska, 1895 - 2006, Kymberly M. Yano, Jessica Y. Tingg, Charles W. Fowler

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

The northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) has been the subject of recorded history for more than two centuries (Scheffer et al. 1984, Scott et al. 2006). It has a long history of being commercially harvested for its valuable pelts (Roppel 1984). Recently, however, fur seals are being seen as one of many species reflecting the conditions of their environment, especially an environment increasingly altered by human influence. The Pribilof Islands fur seal population is currently listed as depleted under terms of the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act owing to numbers greatly reduced from those observed historically (National Marine …