HARBOR SEAL (Phoca vitulina): Western North Atlantic Stock

• Main Authors: Stock Definition, Geographic Range
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Greenland; Kenney; Payne; harbor seal; North Atlantic; Phoca vitulina
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.294.6734; http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/ao1999sehr-wn.pdf

The harbor seal is found in the western North Atlantic, from the eastern Canadian Arctic and Greenland south to southern New England and New York, and occasionally to the Carolinas (Boulva and McLaren 1979; Katona et al. 1993; Gilbert and Guldager 1998). Although the stock structure of the western N...