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Title: Steller sea lion haulout and rookery locations in the United States. (NODC Accession 0129877)
Abstract: Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) use terrestrial sites for reproduction, resting, molting, and other activities. Sites used during the breeding season (May-August) where pupping occurs are rookeries; haulouts are sites used outside of the breeding season, and by primarily non-breeding adults and other ages throughout the year. The NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NMML) Alaska Ecosystem Program (AEP) maintains a list of known Steller sea lion terrestrial sites in the United States portion of the sea lion range. This dataset contains site names with corresponding geographic coordinates of 472 consistently-used and known Steller sea lion haul sites. The site names are consistent throughout NMML data products and can be used to provide geospatial referencing for other NMML dataset products and publications. For legal descriptions of sites listed as Critical Habitat under the Endangered Species Act, refer to 50 CFR 226.202.
Regions are commonly referred to in NMML dataproducts and manuscripts, and in NMFS policy and management documents. Metapopulation structure in Alaska is described by: York AE, Merrick RL, and Loughlin TR (1996). An analysis of the Steller sea lion metapopulation in Alaska. In: Metapopulations and Wildlife Conservation, Island Press, Washington DC 259-292.


User must read and fully comprehend the metadata prior to use. Applications or inferences derived from the data should be carefully considered for accuracy. Cite as "Fritz, L.W.; Sweeney, K.; Towell, R.; Gelatt, T. (2015). Steller sea lion haulout and rookery locations in the United States. (NODC Accession 0129877). National Centers for Environmental Information, NOAA. Dataset. doi:###### [access date]" as the source from which these data were obtained in any publication and/or other representations of these data.
Date received: 20150706
Start date: 20150514
End date: 20150514
Seanames: Bering Sea, Bering Sea - Coastal Waters of Western Alaska, Bering Sea - Norton Sound, Coastal Waters of California, Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Coastal Waters of Washington/Oregon, Gulf of Alaska, Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, North Pacific Ocean, Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, Prince William Sound (Gulf of Alaska)
West boundary: 172.465
East boundary: -120.666
North boundary: 63.677
South boundary: 34.899
Observation types: biological, marine mammal observation
Instrument types: GPS, visual observation
Datatypes: biological data, LATITUDE, LONGITUDE, MARINE MAMMALS
Submitter: Fritz, Lowell W.
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Alaska Fisheries Science Center; Marine Mammal Laboratory
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Alaska Fisheries Science Center; Marine Mammal Laboratory
Contributing projects: STELLER SEA LION RESEARCH
Platforms:
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Submission Package ID: M1J8Y5
Availability date:
Metadata version: 4
Keydate: 2015-07-13 14:10:03+00
Editdate: 2015-07-13 16:09:51+00