Exploitation of fur seals and sea lions from Australian, New Zealand and adjacent subantarctic islands during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Australian Zoologist

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 323-343

  Ling, John K ^a  

^a NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colonial sealing; Exploitation; Fur seals; Sea lions; Skin cargoes

Indexed keywords

ARCTOCEPHALUS FORSTERI; ARCTOCEPHALUS PUSILLUS DORIFERUS; MACROPUS SP.; NEOPHOCA; NEOPHOCA CINEREA; OTARIIDAE; PANTHERA LEO; PHOCARCTOS; PHOCARCTOS HOOKERI; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 0012126029     PISSN: 00672238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7882/az.1999.036     Document Type: Article

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