Predation by seals on salmonids in two Scottish estuaries

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• Language: English
• Subjects: behaviour; estuaries; fisheries interactions; grey seals; harbour seals. Correspondence; Dr T. J. Carter; Department of Life Sciences; Anglia Polytechnic University; East Road; Dee; Phoca vitulina; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.571.2880; http://www.abdn.ac.uk/marfish/pdfs/Carter2001.pdf

Abstract Detailed observations of the behaviour of harbour seals, Phoca vitulina L., at sites within the estuaries of the Rivers Dee and Don, in north-eastern Scotland, were made over two full years between 1993 and 1996. Small numbers of grey seals, Halichoerus grypus Fab., were also present. The p...