Science & Data

Evolving science on an evolving island.

"Back to Bogi".

Mission Bogoslof.

Where is Bogoslof Island anyway?

The northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) is harvested commercially by the United States on St. Paul Island of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, and by the USSR on its Commander and Robben Islands. Japan and Canada, in return for abstention from pelagic sealing, share in these harvests under terms of the Interim Convention on the Conservation of North Pacific Fur Seals. Under this same Convention, all four countries cooperate in an international program of conservation and research on the species.

This online bibliography is based on a 2006 publication which lists northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) literature available up to that time. Additional northern fur seal citations, literature, and related archival information are available in the Marine Mammal Library's Northern Fur Seal Archive and the AFSC Publications Database.

Northern fur seal pup and adult male counts.

Northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus, previously referred to as the Alaska fur seal) are found in the North Pacific and Bering Sea.

Dinner from a seal’s point of view.

Lots of success in the field tracking fur seals with saildrone.