Selundersøkelser i det nordlige Atlanterhav i 1973

• Main Authors: Benjaminsen, Terje, Bergflødt, Bjørn, Øritsland, Torger
• Format: Report
• Language: Norwegian Bokmål
• Published: Havforskningsinstituttet 1973
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Greenland; Greenland Sea; Jan Mayen; North Atlantic; Svalbard; walrus*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/113041

Accounts are given of weather and ice conditions, the distribution of seals and sampling of harp and hooded seals at New foundland-Labrador and in the Jan Mayen area of the Greenland Sea through the sealing season in March—April. Information on harp seals and sealing in the southeastern Barents Sea has been compiled from journals kept by four sealing vessels, Bearded seals were studied in the waters of Svalbard in July— August. On this expedition some 350 walruses were recorded and a local population of common seals was sampled for identification.