. So far we have flown the hexacopter at 10 sites in the Rat and Near Islands.
Another important task has been to visit all six sea lion sites where we have digital cameras stationed. These remote cameras are pointed at various sections of a site to capture images of marked sea lions hauled out on land. This is an important method for collecting sightings of marked animals since we are only able to survey this remote area once or twice a year.
There are four sites with cameras in the Near Islands, one in the Rat Islands, and one site in the Delarof Islands, on Ulak Island for a total of 20 cameras. Last summer, a camera was mounted and focused on the tidal waters at one rookery site to capture any killer whale activity. These cameras are programmed to capture images approximately every 20 minutes during daylight hours. In the last year, we have collected more than 375,000 images.
It takes a lot of effort to go through and find marked animals from these images. These sightings, along with those we have conducted from the skiff or shore while on our cruise, are used to estimate survival and birth rates, and track movements. Since this part of the population has continued to decline, this information is important for assessing possible causes for the lack of recovery.
Last year, NMFS biologists marked a very small proportion (0.01%) of the pups born in the western stock of the U.S. These marks are permanent so individuals can be identified throughout their lifetime. In the western end of the Aleutian Islands, we mark animals only at two sites; one site is in the Near Islands on Agattu Island and the other is in the Delarof Islands, at Ulak Island. Sites, where sea lion pups are marked, have their own unique symbol associated. For example on Agattu, the leading symbol is “~”. When an adult or juvenile animals are captured, since we don’t know where these animals were born, they are marked with a “=” symbol. The symbols are followed by numbers, increasing chronologically. Seeing these marked animals over time can tell quite a story.
Three marked individuals, we have seen on this cruise are good examples.
An adult female marked =30 was captured on Kiska Island at Cape St. Stephens on October of 2014. She weighed 774 pounds and was almost 8.5 feet long! We saw her in the summer of 2015 during our research cruise in June with a new pup. During this year’s cruise, we saw her at the same site with another pup. Sea lion females can have one pup per year but sometimes, especially out here in the Aleutian Islands, we can see them having a pup every other year; sometimes we see them have a pup every two years. In those instances where they don’t have a pup every year, we typically see them with their offspring from the previous year or two—those juveniles can grow to almost be the same size as the mom!
Another female we have seen was marked >61 as a pup on Ulak Island in June of 2015. She weighed about 69 pounds and was almost 3 and a half feet long. (These pups can be quite large. We once marked a male pup that weighed over 100 pounds and was just over 4 feet long.) This year was our first sighting of >61 since she was marked and she is looking great.
The combination of visual observations and the remote camera images occasionally allow us to document the movement of animals from other parts of the population, including Russia. A male sea lion that was born on Medny Island, in the Commander Islands, Russia was seen at Attu Island in the Near Islands in 2011 and 2012 during our research cruises. We didn’t see him during our cruise in 2013 but our volunteers spotted him from the images collected from the remote cameras at the same site. He appears to be a sub-adult male, maybe 7 to 9 years old. In 2014 and this year, he was seen in the Rat Islands and during our cruise.
And we've observed adult females born on Medny that have given birth on Attu Island in the US. All without a passport.
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