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1957 Alaska Fur Seal Investigations

The goal of fur seal research and management is not a changing target. Therefore, the objectives are essentially those stated previously. Some aspects are more clearly defined but the primary objective of fur leal management is still to attain maximum sustained productivity. The research will continue to be designed to indicate the steps necessary to ~chieve the primary objective and to recognize what progress is being made toward it. Population, reproduction, and mortality studies receive principal emphasis because the problem is largely an ecological one. The investigators are attempting to understand the reaction of the fur leal herd to various environmental factors including harvest by man.
June 28, 1957 - Assessments ,
Alaska

1956 Alaska Fur Seal Investigations

The goal of fur seal management became clearly apparent during the development and final casting of ideas at the North Pacific Fur Seal Conference in 1955-56. The prime objective of management is to attain maximum sustained productivity. The research will be designed to indicate the kind of management practices which will result in achieving the prime objective. Directing of research toward this end will not restrict it to a narrow unimaginative channel because most biological facts about fur seals are useful and necessary for intelligent management. A large part of the effort will. however, be expanded upon those aspects which are indispensable for an understanding of the current composition and condition of the Pribilof seal herd.
June 28, 1956 - Assessments ,
Alaska

1955 Alaska Fur Seal Investigations

Alaska Fur Seal Investigations in the Pribilof Islands.
June 28, 1955 - Assessments ,
Alaska

1954 Alaska Fur Seal Investigations

Biological studies were conducted on the Pribilof Islands in 1954 between 28 May and 25 September. All five islands of the group were visited during the summer but the biological studies were carried out primarily on St. Paul.
June 28, 1954 - Assessments ,
Alaska

1953 Alaska Fur Seal Investigations

Collaborators and visiting scientists. The adequacy of the laboratory on St. Paul Island for use by the regular workers concurrently with visiting scientists has been discussed in earlier reports. In 1953 we increased the worktable and seating space in order to accommodate more compatible the parasitology group and those working on general biological problems. Also, better lights were installed by the island management. Conditions were generally improved although we look forward to the use of the new laboratory when completed.
June 28, 1953 - Assessments ,
Alaska

1952 Alaska Fur Seal Investigations

Scheffer was on St. Paul Island from 8 to 25 August, and Kenyon from 13 September to 5 October. Because of the pressing importance of Pelagic studies in the North Pacific Ocean during the spring and summer of 1952, little attention was paid to the Pribilof Islands.
June 28, 1952 - Assessments ,
Alaska

1951 Alaska Fur Seal Investigations

Collaborators and visiting scientists. Nineteen fifty-one was a record year for collaborators and visiting scientists. These men make invaluable contributions to fur seal research and it is our opinion that such visits should be encouraged. However, it should be realized that visitors in 1951 far outstripped the work facilities.
June 28, 1951 - Assessments ,
Alaska

1950 Alaska Fur Seal Investigations

The biologists continued their laboratory studies of the fur seal specimens and statistics gathered during the field season of 1949 on the Pribilof Islands.
June 28, 1950 - Assessments ,
Alaska

1949 Alaska Fur Seal Herd Studies

This report summarizes the biologist's activities under Project 80 in the field season of 1949 on the Pribilof Islands, and their subsequent studies in Seattle. A report for each major phase of the investigation has independently been issued. The present report gives a list of the these and adds certain minor biological findings.
June 28, 1949 - Assessments ,
Alaska

1948 Alaska Fur Seal Herd Studies

This report describes briefly the activities under Project 80 in 1948. Generally speaking, the biologists 1. photographed the seal beaches from the air, 2. counted dead seal pups, 3. studies the human error in measuring seals on the killing field, 4. tagged 19, 532 seal pups, 5. studied the growth rate of seals of known age, 6. collected liver samples for the vitamin A analysis, 7. counted seals at the sea during the fall migration, 8. made a critical study of the present method of computing the seal population, and 9. engaged in research of lesser importance.
June 28, 1948 - Assessments ,
Alaska