Rounded Global Status Rank: G3 - Vulnerable

Reasons: Occurs in the North Pacific Ocean; declines have occurred in recent decades in the north, but California breeding population has increased; population decline in the Pribilof Islands in the 1980s apparently was due to harvests of females during the 1960s, increased mortality at sea (e.g., due to entanglement in debris such as discarded fishing nets), and perhaps reduced prey availability caused by increased commercial fishing; substantial numbers are killed in the high-seas squid driftnet fishery.