Harbor seal diet in northern Puget Sound: Implications for the recovery of depressed fish stocks

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 464, Issue , 2012, Pages 257-271

  Lance, Monique M ^a   Chang, Wan Ying ^b   Jeffries, Steven J ^a   Pearson, Scott F ^a   Acevedo Gutiérrez, Alejandro ^c  

^a WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet composition; Harbor seal; Marine reserves; Pacific herring; Phoca vitulina; Rockfish; Salmon; Scat analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCESS RESTRICTION; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DIET; FECES; FOOD WEB; MARINE PARK; MARINE RESOURCE; PINNIPED; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; PREY AVAILABILITY; QUOTA SYSTEM; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SUCCESSION; TELEOST;

PUGET SOUND; SAN JUAN ISLANDS; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

AMMODYTES HEXAPTERUS; CLUPEA PALLASI; CLUPEIDAE; ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS MORDAX; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; PHOCA; PHOCA VITULINA; SALMONIDAE; SEBASTES; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 84866645940     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09880     Document Type: Article

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