Summary of National Parks & Wildlife Service surveys for common (harbour) seals (Phoca vitulina) and grey seals (Halichoerus grypus), 1978 to 2003

Based on a synthesis of the results from five different studies of neutral genetic markers (mtDNAand nuclear microsatellites, mainly) twelve genetically distinct populations

At present, harbour seals, (Phoca vitulina vitulina L.), are considered rare along the Barents Sea coast of the Kola Peninsula (the Murman coast) in Russia.. However, earlier

Diving behaviour of sub-adult harbour seals Phoca vitulina at Prins Karls Forland, Svalbard.. Fjordsel

A first harbour seal survey that included the entire Norwegian coast, primarily based on aerial photographic surveys, but supplemented with boat based visual counts in a few areas,

Harbour seals show a high degree of spatial structuring and form 6 genetically distinct pop- ulations along the European coast lines: Iceland, Scotland-Ireland, EastAnglia, the

After hunting - particularly aimed at pups - was banned in the mid-1970s in the entire Wadden Sea, the population started growing, gradually at the beginning, but then steadily

Until recently, around half of the UK harbour seal population was found in Orkney and Shetland, with large numbers also being recorded on the west coast of Scotland, includ- ing

The distribution and abundance of harbour seals Phoca vitulina concolor and gray seals Halichoerus grypus in southern New England, winter 1998 summer 1999 [M.A.. Boston University,