Vol. 62, 2023
(update: 2023.1.1)
First Satellite Tagging of the
Northern Fur Seals (Callorhinus
ursinus) on the Tyuleniy Island, the Sea of Okhotsk
Peter
A. Permyakov1,*, Sergey D. Ryazanov1, Alexey M.
Trukhin1, Vyacheslav B. Lobanov1, Hyun Woo Kim2, and Seok-Gwan Choi3
doi:-
1V.I.
Il’ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian
Academy of Sciences, 43 Baltiyskaya Street, Vladivostok 690041, Russia.
*Correspondence: E-mail: permyakovpa@poi.dvo.ru (Permyakov).
E-mail: ryazanov@poi.dvo.ru (Ryazanov);
trukhin@poi.dvo.ru (Trukhin); lobanov@poi.dvo.ru (Lobanov)
2Research Planning Division, National Institute of
Fisheries Science, Busan 46083, Republic of Korea.E-mail:
hyunwoo.kim@korea.kr (Kim)
3Cetacean Research Institute, National Institute of
Fisheries Science, Ulsan 44780, Republic of Korea. E-mail:
sgchoi@korea.kr (Choi)
§BJ and LH contributed
equally to this work.
(Received 30 May 2022 / Accepted 6 November 2022 / Published -- 2023)
Communicated by Benny K.K. Chan
In October 2018, two adult females
of the Northern fur seal and one juvenile male were deployed with
satellite tags on the Tyuleniy Island in the Sea of Okhotsk. The
resulting operational time of the tags ranged from 33 to 203 days. The
adult females started their winter migration in the first half of
November; the initial stage of their winter migration occurred in the
Japan/East Sea, into which they entered through the La Perouse Strait.
The juvenile male left the rookery in mid-October, crossed the Sea of
Okhotsk in a wide arc in a north-western direction and returned to the
south. The male had reached the coastal areas of Japan by the end of
November. From the Sea of Okhotsk, the male entered the Pacific Ocean
through the Yekaterina Strait and subsequently entered the Japan/East
Sea via the Tsugaru Strait. The winter foraging of the male occurred
within the Japan/East Sea in coastal waters of Japan. After 3 months,
the male returned to the Pacific and remained off the Sanriku Coast
(Honshu Island).
Key words: Northern fur seal (NFS), On-shore
(reproductive) period, Sea (pelagic) period, Winter migration, The Sea
of Okhotsk, Japan/East Sea, North-Western Pacific
Citation: Permyakov PA, Ryazanov SD,
Trukhin AM, Lobanov VB, Kim HW, Choi SW. 2023. First satellite tagging
of the Northern fur seals (Callorhinus
ursinus) on the Tyuleniy Island, the Sea of Okhotsk. Zool Stud 62:03.

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