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Steller's Sea Lion
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Steller’s Sea Lion 

(Eumetopias jubatus), also northern sea lion, an aquatic mammal of the family Otariidae. The males reach a length of 3.5 m and weigh about 800-900 kg; the females reach a length of 2.5 m and a weight of approximately 300 kg. The coloration is brown in winter and reddish yellow in summer.

Steller’s sea lion inhabits the coastal waters of the northern Pacific Ocean; in the USSR it is found from the Sea of Japan to the Bering Strait. The females, in harems of 15 to 20 individuals, reproduce in May and June, usually on the rocky shores of islands. The mammals shelter principally in the Sea of Okhotsk (on the islands of lama and Iona) and on the Kuril Islands. Stel-ler’s sea lions feed on fish and cephalopods. They are of minor commercial value. [23–1019–]
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Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus), and most recently, harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) populations have all decreased (4-6).
Phocine distemper virus in northern sea otters in the Pacific Ocean, ... by Goldstein, Tracey; Mazet, Jonna A.K.; Gill, Verena A.; Doroff, Angela M.; Burek, Kathy A.; Hammond, / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Abstract--Groundfish fisheries in the southeast Bering Sea in Alaska have been constrained in recent years by management measures to protect the endangered Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus).
Effects of commercial fishing on local abundance of Pacific cod ... by Conners, M. Elizabeth; Munro, Peter / Fishery Bulletin
Meanwhile, in a separate development, Oregon and Washington fishery crews are about to resume nonlethal hazing of Steller sea lions to deter them from feeding on white sturgeon in the Columbia River.
Not much room for optimism in spring chinook season projections by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
 
 
 
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