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Marine Environment & Ecology Maintaining the monitoring of pup production at key Australian sea lion colonies in South Australia (2011/12) Simon D Goldsworthy, Andrew D Lowther and Peter D Shaughnessy SARDI Publication No. F2010/000665-3 SARDI Research Report Series No. 739 SARDI Aquatic Sciences PO Box 120 Henley Beach SA 5022 October 2013 Final report to the Australian Marine Mammal Centre Maintaining the monitoring of pup production at key Australian sea lion colonies in South Australia (2011/12) Final report to the Australian Marine Mammal Centre Simon D Goldsworthy, Andrew D Lowther and Peter D Shaughnessy SARDI Publication No. F2010/000665-3 SARDI Research Report Series No. 739 October 2013 I This publication may be cited as: Goldsworthy, S.D.1, Lowther, A.D.1, 2 and Shaughnessy, P.D.3 (2013). Maintaining the monitoring of pup production at key Australian sea lion colonies in South Australia (2011/12). Final report to the Australian Marine Mammal Centre South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. SARDI Publication No. F2010/000665-3. SARDI Research Report Series No. 739.51pp. 1 SARDI, 2 Hamra Avenue, West Beach, SA, 5024 2 Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Hjalmar Johansens gt. 14, NO-9296 Tromsø, Norway 3 South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, 5000 Cover photo: Australian sea lion pups on Cap Island, a new breeding colony discovered in 2011. South Australian Research and Development Institute SARDI Aquatic Sciences 2 Hamra Avenue West Beach SA 5024 Telephone: (08) 8207 5400 Facsimile: (08) 8207 5406 http://www.sardi.sa.gov.au DISCLAIMER The authors warrant that they have taken all reasonable care in producing this report. The report has been through the SARDI internal review process, and has been formally approved for release by the Research Chief, Aquatic Sciences. Although all reasonable efforts have been made to ensure quality, SARDI does not warrant that the information in this report is free from errors or omissions. SARDI does not accept any liability for the contents of this report or for any consequences arising from its use or any reliance placed upon it. The SARDI Report Series is an Administrative Report Series which has not been reviewed outside the department and is not considered peer-reviewed literature. Material presented in these Administrative Reports may later be published in formal peer-reviewed scientific literature. © 2013 SARDI This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), no part may be reproduced by any process, electronic or otherwise, without the specific written permission of the copyright owner. Neither may information be stored electronically in any form whatsoever without such permission. Printed in Adelaide: October 2013 SARDI Publication No. F2010/000665-3 SARDI Research Report Series No. 739 Author(s): Simon D Goldsworthy1, Andrew D Lowther1, 2 and Peter D Shaughnessy3 Reviewer(s): Kathryn Wiltshire and Paul Rogers Approved by: Dr Jason Tanner Science Leader – Marine Ecosystems Signed: Date: 23 October 2013 Distribution: Australian Marine Mammal Centre, SAASC Library, University of Adelaide Library, Parliamentary Library, State Library and National Library Circulation: Public Domain II TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................. 1 2 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 3 AIMS AND WORK PLAN ........................................................................................................ 5 3 METHODS ....................................................................................................................... 8 FIELD SITES ....................................................................................................................... 8 Olive and Jones Islands ................................................................................................. 8 Lilliput and Blefuscu Islands........................................................................................... 8 Seal Bay and Seal Slide ................................................................................................. 8 SURVEY METHODOLOGY .................................................................................................... 9 Live and dead pup counts .............................................................................................. 9 Mark-recapture ................................................................................................................. 9 Cumulative pup production .......................................................................................... 11 Seal Bay population and growth estimates ............................................................... 12 Seal Slide population estimate .................................................................................... 13 Seal Bay - micro-chipping and demography program ............................................. 13 Remote camera trials to monitor breeding chronology ............................................ 14 4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION .......................................................................................16 OLIVE AND JONES ISLANDS ...............................................................................................16 Olive Island ..................................................................................................................... 16 Jones Island ................................................................................................................... 17 LILLIPUT AND BLEFUSCU ISLANDS ......................................................................................20 SEAL BAY AND SEAL SLIDE ...............................................................................................22 Seal Bay - Pup production and population growth ................................................... 22 Seal Bay - trends in maximum live-pup counts, pup production and mortality .... 23 Seal Bay - micro-chipping and demography program ............................................. 25 Seal Slide - pup abundance ......................................................................................... 26 ADDITIONAL COLONY SURVEYS ..........................................................................................34 Rocky (North) Island ..................................................................................................... 34 Cap Island ....................................................................................................................... 34 Rocky (South) Island ..................................................................................................... 35 Greenly Island ................................................................................................................ 35 Four Hummocks Islands ............................................................................................... 35 Little Hummock Island................................................................................................... 36 Price Island ..................................................................................................................... 36 Golden Island ................................................................................................................. 37 Curta Rocks .................................................................................................................... 37 Nuyts Reef ...................................................................................................................... 37 Chronology of western Eyre ASL breeding colonies ............................................... 38 REMOTE CAMERA TRIALS TO MONITOR BREEDING CHRONOLOGY ..........................................40 5 CONCLUSIONS .............................................................................................................45 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .................................................................................................47 7 REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................48 III Executive Summary 1 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This project maintained pup production monitoring of a number of key Australian sea lion (ASL) breeding colonies within South Australia between late 2011 and early 2013. This included surveys at Seal Bay and the Seal Slide on Kangaroo Island, Lilliput and Blefuscu Islands in the Nuyts Archipelago, and Olive and Jones Islands off the west Eyre Peninsula. The breeding status and pup production were also determined for Nuyts Reef and a number of islands off the western and lower Eyre Peninsula including Cap, Rocky (North), Rocky (South), Greenly, Four Hummocks, Little Hummock and Price Islands, and Curta Rocks. Opportunistic aerial surveys also permitted assessment of breeding chronology for a number of colonies in the Nuyts Archipelago and off western Eyre Peninsula. Pup production for the 2011/12 breeding season at Seal Bay was estimated to be 251 (range 249-256), based principally on twice-weekly surveys of new pup births and deaths, and Petersen (mark-recapture) estimates, as well as direct counts of pups in Pup Cove. This estimate is similar to those from the previous three breeding seasons (2010: 267-276; 2008/09: 268-275; 2007: 254-256). Pup production at the Seal Slide was estimated to be 13 for the
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