GRAY SEAL (Halichoerus grypus): Western North Atlantic Stock

• Main Authors: Stock Definition, Geographic Range
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: animals has been documented on outer Cape Cod and Nantucket Island (Dennis Murley; pers. comm; Mass. Audubon; Canada; Nantucket; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.294.5499; http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/ao2000segr-wn.pdf

The gray seal is found on both sides of the North Atlantic, with three major populations: in eastern Canada; northwestern Europe and the Baltic Sea (Katona et al. 1993). The western North A tlantic population occurs from New England to Labrador and is centered in the Sable Island region of Nova Scot...