Management and utilization of seals in Greenland. Revised April 2012.

• Main Author: Unkn Unknown
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Government of Greenland, Department of Fisheries, Hunting & Agriculture 2012
• Subjects: Indigenous communites; Seals; Indigenous rights; Human activity; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Canada; Greenland; Qaanaaq; Tac; Thumb; White Sea; Baffin; Greenland Sea; greenlandic; Harp Seal; hooded seal; inuit; Newfoundland; North Atlantic; Northwest Atlantic; ringed seal
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25607/obp-1689; https://repository.oceanbestpractices.org/handle/11329/1821

1. Species: There are six different species of seals in the Greenlandic waters. Five of the species have been hunted for centuries, but today the catch is focused on the harp seal, ringed seal and hooded seal with great importance to the Inuit hunters. The seal populations hunted in Greenland's...