Studies on reproduction in the harp seal (Phoca groenlandica Erxleben) in the northwest Atlantic.

• Main Author: Fisher, Harold. D.
• Other Authors: Dunbar, M. (Supervisor)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: McGill University 1954
• Subjects: Zoology; Arctic; Jan Mayen; White Sea; Harp Seal; Newfoundland; Northwest Atlantic; Novaya Zemlya; Phoca groenlandica
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=109647

The harp seal, Phoca groenlandica, ranges from the eastern Canadian coast and Arctic eastward to Novaya Zemlya and adjacent Soviet areas. Within this range it is divided into three major breeding populations which can be referred to as the Eastern, breeding in the White Sea, the Central, breeding in the Jan Mayen area, and the Western, breeding off the northeast coast of Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Fig. 1). The species is strongly migratory and occupies the southern area of pack-ice for breeding in the spring, between late February and the end of April.