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  2. Harbor seal - Wikipedia

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    The harbor (or harbour) seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere. The most widely distributed species of pinniped (walruses, eared seals, and true seals), they are found in coastal waters of the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Baltic ...

  3. Hauling-out - Wikipedia

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    Harbour seals on intertidal site. Harbour seals are the most abundant pinniped in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. [2] Much like other pinnipeds, harbour seals haul-out for reasons such as thermoregulation, breeding, mating, moulting, resting, and foraging.

  4. Freshwater seal - Wikipedia

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    Harbor seals (common seals) are also known to enter estuaries and freshwater rivers in pursuit of their prey. [8] In addition a unique subspecies in Quebec and an isolated population of harbor seals in Alaska are known to inhabit freshwater lakes for the duration of the year. They are also known to frequently migrate to the Western Arctic.

  5. Agreement on the Conservation of Seals in the Wadden Sea

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    Harbour seal. Common seals, or harbor seals, are nearly threatened true seal species, inhabiting temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern hemisphere. They are found in coastal waters of the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well as those of the Baltic and North Seas. Harbor seals are brown, tan, or gray, with distinctive V ...

  6. Phocine morbillivirus - Wikipedia

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    PDV was first identified in 1988 as the cause of death of 18,000 harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) and 300 grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) along the northern European coast. [3] In 2002, an epizootic of PDV along the North Sea coast resulted in the deaths of 21,700 seals, estimated to be 51% of the population.

  7. Seal hunting - Wikipedia

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    Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. Seal hunting is currently practiced in nine countries: Canada, Denmark (in self-governing Greenland only), Russia, the United States (above the Arctic Circle in Alaska), Namibia, Estonia, Norway, Finland and Sweden. Most of the world's seal hunting takes place in Canada ...

  8. Phoca - Wikipedia

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    Phoca (/ ˈ f oʊ k ə / FOH-kə) [1] is a genus of the earless seals, within the family Phocidae. It now contains just two species, the common seal (or harbour seal) and the spotted seal (or largha seal). Several species formerly listed under this genus have been split into the genera Pusa, Pagophilus, and Histriophoca.

  9. Strawberry Lagoon - Wikipedia

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    Typically Harbor seals in California do not congregate in haul outs in numbers exceeding 100.(Orr, 1972) In the 1980s a channel was created to sever the spit from the mainland creating a more secure haulout for the seals known as Sanctuary Island. An Earth Metrics Inc. study of 1990 provided for more protection of the seals by constructing an ...