Migrations of Harp Seals Pagophilus groenlandicus (Erxleben) in the Northwest Atlantic

• Published in: Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
• Main Author: Sergeant, D. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1965
• Subjects: General Medicine; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; Greenland; Belle Isle; Strait of Belle Isle; Baffin; Harp Seal; Northwest Atlantic; Pagophilus groenlandicus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f65-043; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f65-043

Some 1300 harp seal pups were marked with four types of tags over 5 years from commercial sealing ships at the breeding patches off eastern Canada. Recovery rates from individual taggings ranged up to 20%. The greatest age at recovery was 4 years, 10 months. The recoveries and observational evidence...