Pribilof Islands

[prib-uh-lawf, -lof]

plural noun

1. a group of islands in the Bering Sea, SW of Alaska, and belonging to the U.S.: the breeding ground of fur seals.

Pribilof Islands

/ ˈprɪbɪləf /

plural noun

1. Also called: Fur Seal Islands. a group of islands in the Bering Sea, off SW Alaska, belonging to the US: the breeding ground of the northern fur seal. Area: about 168 sq km (65 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Much of the fishery disaster money would assist Northwest and Alaska-based Bering Sea crabbers, and the communities, such as St. Paul in the Pribilof Islands, where the catch is processed.

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“I work in the Pribilof Islands for an Aleut community of 450 people, which is heavily invested in the crab quota,” McCarty said.

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The shores of the Pribilof Islands have been buffeted by ocean plastics and conservation groups participate in regular cleanups that yield tens of thousands of pounds of discarded fishing gear and other debris.

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The area encompassing 100 nautical miles around the inhabited islands of St. Paul and St. George, which takes the shape of a large peanut, represents the Pribilof Islands Marine Ecosystem, which traditional knowledge and Western science identify as uniquely important and as providing the nutrition for the entirety of the food web that inhabits the Pribilof Islands, from zooplankton to marine mammals and seabirds.

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This year, colder weather and northern winds have helped push the winter ice across a much broader expanse of the Bering Sea that included a dramatic, late-March surge south to the Pribilof Islands.

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