Monthly Update: The Kauai team logged 223 seal sightings this month. This included 31 individually identified seals.
November: 223
October: 258
September: 203
August: 324
July: 239
June: 179
May: 262
April: 348
March: 350
Feb: 303
Jan: 284
Updates:
- PK6 was born at a remote beach along Napali Coast in September to R400. He was flipper-tagged on Nov 11. The male pup was large and healthy and now has a permanent ID of RL40.
- RH38, the seal rehabbed at Ke Kai Ola and released in July, continues to thrive. Her tracking tag remains attached, however the battery has died so no further data is being transmitted.
- All of the 6 pups born this year have been sighted recently and continue to thrive.
- Displacements: Adult male RF28 was displaced from the keiki pool beach. That was his first displacement from the keiki pool.
- Molting: Adult male RN02 spent 3 weeks at the busy Poipu Beach in pre-molt, molt, and post-molt which required extensive volunteer coverage. One other seal molted this month in less busy areas.
- Vaccinations: Initial morbillivirus vaccine given to new juvenile seal R1NI.
- Bleach marking: none this month.
Research/Support of Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center:
- Sub-sampled scat, molt, and tissue plug samples accordingly.
- Logged all seal sightings for PIFSC database. Organized photos and reported sightings, molt tallies, survival factors to send to PIFSC.
Kaua'i Seals 