GRAY SEAL (Halichoerus grypus): Western North Atlantic Stock

The gray seal is found in the western North Atlantic from New England to Labrador and is centered in the Sable Island region of Nova Scotia (Katona et al. 1993; Davies 1957). This stock is separated by both geography and differences in the breeding season from the eastern Atlantic stock (Bonner 1981...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stock Definition, Geographic Range
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1999
Subjects:
POPULATION SIZE
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.294.7058
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/ao1999segr-wn.pdf
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Summary:The gray seal is found in the western North Atlantic from New England to Labrador and is centered in the Sable Island region of Nova Scotia (Katona et al. 1993; Davies 1957). This stock is separated by both geography and differences in the breeding season from the eastern Atlantic stock (Bonner 1981). The western Atlantic stock is distributed and breeds principally in eastern Canadian waters; however, small numbers of animals and pupping have been observed on several isolated islands along the Maine coast and

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