This website provides access to New Zealand fur seal data collected on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. These are technical data, suitable for studies of fur seal demographics.

Fur seal population monitoring by DOC occurs at three colonies on the West Coast, Wekakura Point, Cape Foulwind, and Taumaka Island, of Open Bay Islands. Tagging, measurement and count data from this monitoring programme have been have been collected since 1991 and can be searched and downloaded from this site. The data are made available under a creative commons attribution licence.