Data on the Biology and Commercial Sealing of the Jan-Mayen Greenland and Hooded Seals in the Western Ice (Dannye po Biologii i Promyslu Yab-Mayenkogo Lysuna i Khokhlacha v Zapadnykh l'Dakh)

• Main Author: Surkov,S. S.
• Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE WASHINGTON D C
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1972
• Subjects: Biology; Biological Oceanography; *SEALS(MAMMALS); USSR; INDUSTRIES; MAMMALS; AQUATIC ANIMALS; MARINE BIOLOGY; DISTRIBUTION; STATE OF THE ART; REPORTS; TRANSLATIONS; Greenland; Jan Mayen
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0742318; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0742318

The author presents a condensed bibliographical review, which contains biological information on seals. The review discusses and systematizes the dates and places of formation of commercial accumulations of these seals, their distribution, the age and sex composition of the seal populations of the commercial accumulations and the state of the sealing industry. Pertinent charts, graphs, criticisms and conclusions are also presented. (Author) Trans. of Polyarnyi Nauchno-Issledovatelskii Institut Morskogo Rybnogo Khozyaistva i Okeanografii. Trudy (USSR) v12 p88-106 1960, by V. Astvazaturov.