A study of the 1984-1995 program that collected 104 monk seals whose mortality appeared certain; and attempted to nourish and rehabilitate these animals to enable their release.
We used longline surveys to quantify the shark assemblage at French Frigate Shoals (FFS) atoll from May to August 2009. Fishing effort consisted of 189 longline sets totaling 6,862 hook hours of soak time.
2011 Alaska Marine Science Symposium poster on research concluding that seals do pup in the lake and some seals obviously
over-winter there, but it seems unlikely that most seals do.
The North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) was heavily exploited by both nineteenth century whaling and recent (1960s) illegal Soviet catches. Today, the species remains extremely rare especially in the eastern North Pacific.