The harbour seal population in the entire Wadden Sea (Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein,
Lower Saxony, and the Netherlands) has been monitored for more than half a century now …

Grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) were the first mammals to be protected by an Act of
Parliament in the UK and are currently protected under UK, Scottish, and EU conservation …

This study presents an analysis of changes in the regional abundance of harbour seals
Phoca vitulina based on repeated aerial surveys of haulouts, and demonstrates the use of …

Sophie MJM Brasseur, Alterra, Texel, NL & Mike Fedak, NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit,
St. Andrews, UK outs, often diving to near the seabed. The immediate effects of disturbance …

Interactions between grey seal, Atlantic salmon, and harvest controls on the salmon fishery
in the Gulf of Bothnia, northern Baltic Sea, were investigated for the period 1999–2003. We …

The range of the Cape fur seal Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus population largely coincides
with the region of the cold, nutrient-rich Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem …

The increase in numbers and range expansion of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus
forsteri Lesson) in the New Zealand region has prompted many people to comment on their …

Knowledge of the intensity of spatial overlap between aquatic top predators and fisheries is
required to efficiently alleviate the negative effects of marine mammal-fishery interactions …

Technological developments over the last 20 years have meant that telemetry studies have
used a variety of techniques, each with different levels of accuracy and temporal resolution …

(Phoca vitulina)-a global perspective arbour seal abundance has fluctuated widely in the
Northeast Atlantic in recent years, among others due to local outbreaks of viral distemper. In …