The expanding population of fur seals coming onshore Antarctica's Signy Island : ecological impacts and implications for environmental management.

• Main Author: Carter, Holly
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: University of Canterbury 2006
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Signy Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seals; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/13964

In the 19th and early 20th centuries commercial seal hunting in maritime Antarctica resulted in a huge decline in the populations of Antarctic fur seals. In some areas to near extinction. (1) However, since the end of sealing in the Southern Ocean the population has made a huge recovery. At Signy Is...