Oceanological conditions and reproduction of the spotted seal (Phoca larga) in Peter the Great Bay of the Sea of Japan |
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| Authors: | I. O. Katin V. A. Nesterenko |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000, USA;(2) Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, Division of Wildlife Conservation, Fairbanks, AK 99701-1599, USA;(3) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6660, USA;(4) Department of Wildlife Management, North Slope Borough, Barrow, AK 99723, USA |
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| Abstract: | The long-term studying of the reproduction of the spotted seal Phoca larga and the analysis of the oceanological conditions in Peter the Great Bay of the Sea of Japan have shown that the ice situation is not right for the successful parturition and breeding of pups due to the impossibility of synchronization of the reproduction processes with the dynamics and properties of the ice substratum. A major factor promoting the spotted seal’s coastal reproduction in this area is the existence of an archipelago of small islands with a specific geomorphological structure. Being the historical norm, the coastal reproduction has a number of advantages in comparison with ice reproduction and, as a whole, allows the existence in Peter the Great Bay of local groupings of the spotted seal with extremely small numbers of members. |
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