Counting Harp Seals with ultra-violet photography

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Lavigne, D. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1976
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Svalbard; Hudson Bay; White Sea; Canada; Greenland; Hudson; Jan Mayen; Magdalen; Canadian Archipelago; Harp Seal; ice pack; North Atlantic; Pagophilus groenlandicus; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400000310; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400000310

The Harp Seal Pagophilus groenlandicus is a gregarious, migratory seal inhabiting Arctic and sub-Arctic waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. In spring, asthe ice recedes, the largest of three known breeding populations migrates up the east coas of Canada from the Gulf of St Lawrence, along the coast...