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	Wikipedia: Sea Lion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sea lions are characterized by the presence of external ear pinnae or flaps, long front flippers, and the ability to walk on four flippers on land.
		Sea lions are generally found in coastal waters of the temperate to subpolar regions of both northern and southern hemispheres.
		Sea lions are often a popular attraction at zoos and aquariums, performing tricks such as throwing and catching balls on their noses and clapping.
	en.pediax.org /Sea_lion (228 words)

	New Zealand Sea Lion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New Zealand Sea Lion or Hooker's Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri) is a species of sea lion that breeds around the coast of New Zealand's South Island and Stewart Island/Rakiura to some extent, and to a greater extent around New Zealand's sub-antarctic islands, especially the Auckland Islands.
		As one of the larger New Zealand animals, it has been a protected species since the 1890s.
		As the species is considered to be far from "endangered", the Court considered that the Minister's imposition of the lower figure (one of the lowest ever imposed in the 20-year history of such restrictions) was going beyond what the law required.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_Sea_Lion (243 words)

	Ladywildlife's New Zealands Sea Lion
		Since the squid fishing season coincides with the sea lions' breeding season, many of the victims are pregnant and nursing mothers whose unborn pups die with them, and whose pups on shore starve to death.
		Though sea lion deaths were recorded in the first experimental squid trawls undertaken near the Auckland Islands in 1978, sea lions are still referred to as an "accidental bycatch" of the squid fishery.
		In fact, sea lion deaths are an inevitable consequence of trawling near the Auckland Islands.
	ladywildlife.com /animal/newzealandsealion.html (1100 words)

	Other sea lions and fur seals
		The Southern sea lion often interferes with long line and gill net fisheries, although the extend of this interaction is unknown.
		The population at Seal Bay on Kangaroo Island is a tourist attraction.
		The New Zealand sea lion is also commonly called Hooker's sea lion.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jaap/slions.htm (1931 words)

	News: WWF-New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The population is currently only 12,000, and it is estimated that 1,274 of these sea lions have been killed since 1988 in the squid fishery.
		Additionally, the decision by the Ministry not to monitor the number of deaths is a huge letdown for conservation of the New Zealand sea lion.
		In the worst case scenario this could mean that by the time the squid fishery is closed they would have killed 250 sea lions, which is over twice the amount allowed by the Minister this year.
	www.wwf.org.nz /news/2004/04-11-17-SeaLion.cfm (521 words)

	Welcome to Forest and Bird
		Sea lions were later eaten by sailors who were frequently shipwrecked on the Auckland Islands.
		New Zealand sea lions were killed for pelts by sealers in the early 1800s and reduced to very low levels.
		In 1998 sea lions were afflicted by a disease that killed around 50% of pups and up to 20% of adults.
	www.forestandbird.org.nz /Marine/sealions/factsheet.asp (772 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The New Zealand Sea Lion Trust was established in 2003 by researchers to support their voluntary research on one of New Zealand's most charismatic species.
		The research undertaken is therefore focused on New Zealand sea lions on the mainland, particularly the Otago region.
		Sea lions can move surprisingly quickly on land and a distance of at least 10 metres is recommended.
	www.sealiontrust.org.nz (167 words)

	Welcome to Forest and Bird
		Distribution of foraging female sea lions in 2002, 2003 and 2004 (dots) and the degree of protection offered by the Marine Mammal Sanctuary (fl line) currently in place (a) and if it were extended to the 500m contour continental shelf edge (b).
		The sea lion kill quota in the southern squid trawl fishery be reduced to near zero.
		As a gesture to sea lion protection, an upper annual limit of 65 sea lion deaths was set for the squid fishery and a 12 nautical mile marine mammal sanctuary was established.
	www.forestandbird.org.nz /Marine/sealions.asp (745 words)

	News: New Zealand News: Sea Lion 'Quota' Trimmed To 93
		But in April of this year, he boosted the number of sea lions allowed to be killed by more than 50 percent, to 150, after companies said catches were up in the fishery, which can fluctuate heavily because of environmental factors.
		The New Zealand sea lion is the most endangered of the world's five species of sea lion, but in NZ law is rated as a threatened marine mammal -- not immediately threatened with extinction but is potentially vulnerable owing to limited numbers of breeding sites.
		The first sea lion kill quota was set at 16 in 1991, but it jumped to 63 for most of the mid-1990s, and then rose to 73 before scientists reported a massive die-off of sea lions from an unidentified disease in January 1998.
	xtramsn.co.nz /news/0,,11964-6605479,00.html (734 words)

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		There are two species of sea lion in the northern hemisphere, and three in the south.
		The Californian sea lion Zalophus californianus only reaches 2.3 m/7 ft, and is the species most often seen in zoos and as a ‘performing seal’.
		It is one of the larger sea lions; males weigh up to 300 kg/660 lb, three times as much as females, and are 2 m/6.5 ft long.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007380.html (366 words)

	News: WWF-New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The number of sea lions that have died in trawl nets in the squid fishery around the Auckland Islands is currently estimated at 112 for the season to date.
		This is the highest number of sea lions ever allowed to be caught in a season since regulation of the squid fishery started twelve years ago.
		The New Zealand sea lion is classified as vulnerable by the IUCN (World Conservation Union) and declared threatened under New Zealand law.
	www.wwf.org.nz /news/2004/04-06-05-squid.cfm (444 words)

	Earth Island Institute: Earth Island Journal: BioWatch
		New Zealand More than 1400 rare New Zealand sea lion pups about half the pups born in the last year were found dead of starvation in the Auckland Islands in January and February.
		New Zealand will review the allowable sea lion by-catch by squid trawlers in the wake of this blow to the species' numbers.
		Hooker's Sea Lion) was hunted nearly to extinction in the early 19th century but had begun to increase in numbers in recent years.
	www.earthisland.org /eijournal/departments-spring98/bioWatch.html (1660 words)

	Beehive.govt.nz - Minister reduces limit for New Zealand sea lion deaths
		The southern squid trawl fishery operates around the Auckland Islands, from February to April or May, or until the fishing related mortality limit for sea lions is reached.
		The New Zealand sea lion – formerly known as the Hooker's sea lion – is classified as a category B species under the Marine Mammals Protection Act, meaning it is not immediately threatened with extinction but is potentially vulnerable to population decline.
		Sea lions eat squid and are at risk of capture and drowning when they follow squid into trawl nets.
	www.beehive.govt.nz /ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=21466 (292 words)

	New Zealand Birds Flightless Birds Kiwi Bird New Zealand Seabirds Albatross
		New Zealand became a place where birds could experiment with different kinds of behaviour, shape and size - a process scientists call 'adaptive radiation'.
		New Zealand has 3 endemic families of birds, which are found nowhere else, plus many different unique species.
		With the splitting-up of the Gondwana and the isolation of Antarctica, New Zealand was at the heart of penguin evolution.
	www.kiwi-wildlife.co.nz /newzealand_birds.php (488 words)

	Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ - Seals
		Both New Zealand fur seals and sea lions are caught as a part of fisheries' by-catch around New Zealand and the subantarctic islands, and a number of specimens have come into our collections this way.
		New Zealand sea lions are the deepest diving otariid seals (eared seals), with animals repeatedly diving to depths in excess of 500 metres.
		The New Zealand fur seal can be distinguished by its long pointed snout, which is different from the blunt snout of the New Zealand sea lion.
	www.tepapa.govt.nz /TePapa/English/CollectionsAndResearch/Collections/MarineMammals/Seals (314 words)

	New Zealand Coast Islands and Sea
		New Zealand's coastline, battered by the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean, is a meeting place of warm and cold currents, that makes for an environment suited to an exstensive variety of fish.
		The larger New Zealand fur seal is in much greater abundance around the coast, easily spotted basking on rocks or sand and gracefully turning in the waters, their broader, pointy heads popping above the surface.
		Other common sea birds include gannets, their yellow heads and white bodies unmistakable as they dive from great heights into shoals of fish; and cormorants and shags (mostly grey or fl), usually congregating on cliffs and rocky shores.
	www.sunflowerlodge.co.nz /travellers_info_nature_sea.htm (734 words)

	New Zealand adventure travel and cruises.
		The New Zealand sea lion remains one of the rarest sea lions in the world and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists it as a threatened species.
		New Zealand fur seals populate the New Zealand mainland, offshore islands, and parts of Australia.
		In New Zealand, breeding colonies congregate on Campbell and Antipodes islands.
	www.expeditiontrips.com /new-zealand-travel.asp (2389 words)

	Hundreds of sea lion deaths baffle NZ experts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		New Zealand's Department of Conservation (DOC) said one of its veterinarians had been studying the New Zealand sea lions -- one of the world's rarest -- at the country's main breeding colony in the Auckland Islands and had discovered the dead mammals on Wednesday.
		Conservation Minister Nick Smith said the sea lions, with a population of between 11,000 and 15,000, were the most endangered in the world.
		The New Zealand, or Hooker's, sea lion is increasingly threatened by drowning after getting entangled in squid trawler nets used to harvest the prolific squid population with which the sea lions share their habitat.
	members.aol.com /adrcnet/marmamnews/98012909.html (413 words)

	New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries plans to allow more sea lion killing
		Mr Weeber said objections to rules for lower sea lion deaths on the grounds that it would prevent the industry from catching their full quota of squid over-played the effects of such rules and showed an irresponsible attitude towards the marine environment.
		Trials of the sea lion escape device on trawl nets in 2001 and 2002 had resulted in sea lions suffering life-threatening injuries.
		The 2001 autopsy "data suggest that sea lions ejected through the SLED may be subjected to potentially lethal blunt trauma.
	www.eurocbc.org /nz_min_fisheries_approves_increased_sealion_bycatch_kill_17aug2003page1197.html (926 words)

	New Zealand - sea lions
		Sea lions are frequently found along the coasts of New Zealand.
		This particular sea lion almost appeared to enjoy a little attention, but he made it very clear when someone got a little too close.
		Another raft of sea lions enjoy a swimming bath as others watch or absorb the heat of the sun nearby.
	www.icwhen.com /ncc14/topics/sealions/index.html (219 words)

	-= Lion New Sea Zealand =- Cows come into estrus six to seven days after giving birth and matings take place from mid ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In fact, sea lion deaths are an inevitable consequence of trawling the Auckland Islands.
		Habits: New Zealand sea lions inhabit the sandy beaches of New Zealand and its...
		The New Zealand sea lion, formerly known as the and#39;s sea lion, is classified as threatened under the Marine Mammals Protection Act, meaning it is not...
	www.englandusa.com /Lion/Lion-new-sea-zealand.html (744 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Sea Lion
		Sea lions are also able to rotate their hind flippers forward to help them scoot along beaches and rocky shorelines.
		Sea lions are great swimmers, too, and can reach speeds of up to 25 miles per hour (40 kilometers per hour) for short bursts.
		At the San Diego Zoo, sea lions are fed five different types of fish: capelin, squid, pompano, mackerel, and herring.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-sea_lion.html (1041 words)

	Taxonomy Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		New Zealand, or Hooker’s, sea lions are found in the coastal waters of New Zealand and on nearby subantarctic islands.
		Although Hooker’s sea lions do not appear to be migratory, they do appear to disperse widely during the non-breeding season.
		Even though the Auckland Islands were designated as a marine mammal sanctuary in 1997, the New Zealand government has been urged to take measures to increase protection for the Hooker’s sea lions and to promote an increase in their population.
	www.imma.org /pinnipeds/Hookersseali.htm (523 words)

	University News - Communications and Development - University of Canterbury
		While most New Zealanders gear up for Christmas parties, shopping and holiday feasts, Canterbury University biologist Dr Louise Chilvers is preparing to spend the holidays on a cold and isolated Subantartic Island in order to help save the world’s rarest sea lion species, the New Zealand sea lion.
		New Zealand sea lions are the country’s only endemic pinniped (wing-footed marine mammal), and they once occupied most of the country’s coastline.
		This variation amongst individuals may indicate that sea lions learn specific feeding habits when they are young, and Dr Chilvers is anxious to test these preliminary results further with another season of data.
	www.comsdev.canterbury.ac.nz /news/2003/03120902.htm (616 words)

	Cryptozoology.com
		New Zealand, a island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, separated from the super-continent of Gondwanaland (Gondwana) and all other land masses for eighty (80) million years has evolved a unique biosphere.
		There were several bat species present on the mainland; the New Zealand short tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata and Mystacina robusta) and the lobe lipped bat of New Zealand (Chalinolobus tuberculatus) as well as the later arrival of pinnipeds like the New Zealand sea lion (Phocartos hooker) and the New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri).
		These sea lions are mostly segregated to coastal areas, however they have been known to travel inland a couple miles during breeding season.
	www.cryptozoology.com /cryptids/waitoreke.php (4026 words)

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		The Steller sea lion recovery team will meet March 15-17, 2006 in Seattle and complete their revision of the Recovery Plan for both the western and eastern populations.
		Costa and his coauthor, Nicholas Gales of the New Zealand Department of Conservation, investigated the New Zealand sea lion's diving behavior and foraging energetics.
		As part of the emergency rulemaking when Steller sea lions were first listed as threatened in 1990, NMFS prohibited shooting at or near Steller sea lions, reduced the number that could be killed incidental to fishing operations, and designated 3-mile no-entry zones around rookeries (breeding locations) in western Alaska to protect sea lions from disturbance.
	www.lycos.com /info/lion-panthera--lions.html?page=4 (595 words)

	New Zealand Wildlife Health Centre
		Tissue samples from the sea lions have been tested for the presence of viruses by Auckland University (AU), Massey University (MU) and the Central Animal Health Laboratory (CAHL), Wallaceville, in New Zealand and by the Institute of Virology, and Erasmus University Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (EU).
		Post-epidemic samples from sea lions (stomach contents, liver, milk) as well as stomach contents and liver from sea birds found dead in the vicinity of the Auckland Islands are under investigation at Ruakura.
		Further work on existing sea lion samples is underway and a winter expedition to further sample the population is proposed.
	wildlife.massey.ac.nz /research/sealion/sealion.asp (3713 words)

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