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	Harp Seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Harp Seal (Phoca groenlandica, also named Pagophilus groenlandicus), is a marine mammal of the family Phocidae that is found in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
		Harp Seal separates into two populations that breed in different locations: the White Sea, the West Ice and the Northwest populations, of which the Northwest Atlantic population near Newfoundland, Canada is the largest.
		In 2003, the three-year harp seal quota granted by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans was increased to a maximum of 975,000 animals, with a maximum of 350,000 animals in any two consecutive years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harp_Seal (1046 words)

	Underwater World - The Harp Seal
		Harp seals are highly gregarious marine mammals, hauling themselves out of the water on to the ice in dense herds to bear their young, to mate and to moult.
		The harp seal is the basis of a traditional sealing industry in Newfoundland and the Gulf, which was well established by the early 18th century.
		Beginning in 1895 harp seal catches were recorded separately and continued to decline, averaging 249 000 between 1895 and 1911, and 159 000 between 1912 and 1940.
	www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca /zone/underwater_sous-marin/hseal/seal-phoque_e.htm (3839 words)

	OSC Seal Page Harp Seal
		There are three populations of Harps seals; the Greenland population, the Barents Sea population and the northwest Atlantic population.
		There are an estimated 3.2-4.8 million seals in the northwest Atlantic Harp seal population.These seals migrate annually from their breeding grounds on pack ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador into the Arctic.
		Harp seals feed on caplin, polar and Arctic cod, herring, sculpin, Greenland halibut, redfish and plaice.
	www.osc.mun.ca /seals/harp.html (307 words)

	harpseal.htm
		Sealers hunt harp seals soon after they are born because of the beautiful color of their fur.
		Harp seals though are also hunted for their blubber which sealers sell for large amounts of money.
		Harp seals are found in the waters of Russia, Greenland, the eastern coast of Canada, and in the northern parts of Hudson Bay.
	library.thinkquest.org /J002943/harpseal.htm (465 words)

	Harp_Seal
		Harp seals have several inches of blubber under their skin that helps to keep them warm in the cold Arctic climate.
		Harp seals spend most of their lives in the cold, icy waters of the Artic seas.
		Since harp seals live in the sea, it is not hard to imagine that their main food is fish.
	www.geocities.com /rehm12/harp_seal.htm (541 words)

	Harp Seal - Phoca groenlandica - Info and Pictures of Baby Harp Seals - Phoca groenlandica - Map, Information, ...
		Harp Seals - Phoca groenlandica, inhabit the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans from northern Russia, to Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada.
		Harp seals are very closely associated with pack ice, undergoing spring migrations of up to 2,500 km on their way to summer feeding grounds.
		Canadian authorities have increased the number of harp seals that can be culled to close to one million during the 2003 to 2005 period, and the take this year could go as high as 350,000.
	www.tigerhomes.org /animal/harp-seal.cfm (570 words)

	Offshore / Inshore Fisheries Development & Technologies: Species - Harp Seal
		Harp seals occur in Arctic and subarctic waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.
		The schooner sealing fleet was not significant until the early years of the 19th century, but between 1825 and 1860, the heyday of the seal hunt, more than 300 schooners were sailing from St. John's and Conception Bay with crews exceeding 12,000 men.
		Beginning in 1895 harp seal catches were recorded separately and continued to decline, averaging 249,000 between 1895 and 1911, and 159,000 between 1912 and 1940.
	www.mi.mun.ca /mi-net/fishdeve/harp.htm (3750 words)

	Harp Seal Factsheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Harp seals inhabit the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans from northern Russia, to Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada.
		Harp seals are closely associated with pack ice, undergoing spring migrations of up to 2,500 km on their way to summer feeding grounds, returning south ahead of the new ice in the fall.
		Harp seals consume a wide range of prey species and their diet appears to vary with age, season, location and year.
	www.imma.org /harpseal.html (414 words)

	Ladywildlife's Harp Seal Page
		The harp seal pup, with its white coat, is a striking contrast to other seals, but the irregular fl patches on the adults skin give the harp seal its name.
		Harp seals propel themselfs through the water by moving their hindquarters sideways, as opposed to eared seals or sea lions who use their foreflippers for porpulsion.
		The harp seal is well adapted for living in the water but is clumsy and slow on land.
	ladywildlife.com /animal/harpseal.html (667 words)

	Pagophilus groenlandicus, Harp Seal at MarineBio.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Harp seals routinely dive to depths of 100 m while feeding, however one individual was observed diving to a depth of 274 m.
		Harp seals are subjected to intensive commercial hunting during the spring at both their West and East Ice breeding grounds, hunt quotas for these populations being jointly managed by Norway and Russia.
		For the 2001 sealing season Norwegian vessels were allocated hunt quotas of 15,000 adult Harp seals on the West Ice (2 non-suckling pups deemed equal to 1 adult) and 5,000 adult Harp seals on the East Ice (2.5 non-suckling pups deemed equal to 1 adult).
	marinebio.org /species.asp?id=302 (2542 words)

	Harp Seal
		Harp seals have good eyesight, which is very useful in the dimly lit Arctic waters.
		In the eighties and early nineties, pressure from environmental groups led to a ban on seal hunting, and a recovery in the seal population, with numbers now at a level of between 4.8 and 5.4 million according to Canadian estimates.
		Seals are (in the eyes of the fishermen) denying men their livelihoods, and if the seal population became too large, there would not be enough fish even to feed the seals, let alone serve the needs of human fishermen.
	www.yptenc.org.uk /docs/factsheets/animal_facts/harp_seal.html (888 words)

	Mike's Harp Seal Tribute
		Harp Seals (Phoca groenlandica): Harp seals are an extrordinary type of seal and received their name for their harp shaped mark on the backs of the adult harp seal, usually in the colour of a blue or pale grey.
		Harp seals are the third most abundant seal in the world today and its population is about 4 million.
		Today, the population of harp seals is increasing while the amount of fish is declining.
	www.geocities.com /SouthBeach/Palms/8718/seal.html (488 words)

	Harp Seal
		This animal is probably the most commercially important of the seals.
		Harp seals feed primarily on small fish and crustaceans.
		They are reported to be capable of diving to depths of 100 to 150 fathoms and remain submerged for up to 15 minutes.
	www.nature.ca /notebooks/english/harpseal.htm (162 words)

	harp seal. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the spring, harp seals migrate southward to assemble in large groups to breed near the Newfoundland and Norwegian coasts.
		A decade later, however, concerns over the seals’ affect on the cod fisheries led to increased quotas and the return of large commercial operations to the annual hunt.
		Harp seals, sometimes seen as far S as Maine, are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Carnivora.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ha/harpseal.html (239 words)

	Harp seal hunt \| Greenpeace International
		A Greenpeace activist sprays a seal with harmless dye to render its pelt worthless to commercial hunters in 1982.
		While "whitecoat" harp seals (under 2 weeks old) are still protected as a result of actions by Greenpeace and other organisations in the 70s and 80s, and some of the more extreme animal rights abuses have been outlawed, older seals can still be legally hunted under Canadian law.
		The collapse of fisheries around Newfoundland due to mismanagement are a major driver in the economics of expanding the seal hunt -- and part of an all too predictable cycle of "exploit, deplete, and move on" which have characterised human commercial hunts of wild animals the world over.
	www.greenpeace.org /international/news/harp-seal-hunt (420 words)

	Wildlife Art Gallery Item, Baby Harp Seal Pup Arctic wildlife sculpture studio edition
		There are 3 populations of harp seals - Newfoundland's Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Greenland Sea north of the Jan Mayen islands, and in the North Atlantic around Greenland and the White Sea as far south as Maine.
		Harp seals may search for their food in waters as deep as 820 feet (250 meters).
		Harp seals feed on fish such as herring, cod and capelin, as well as crabs and other invertebrates.
	www.chrisdixonstudios.com /cdsgallery/pages/9_1_harp_seal_pup_jpg.htm (359 words)

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		Like many aspects of the harp seal dilemma, the Chinese aphrodisiac trade involving harp seals is exceedingly difficult to research due to the covert nature of a lot of the transactions; however, there are some activists who have offered proof that these transactions have, indeed, transpired.
		The number of harp seals that comprise the population are at issue for both groups.
		The third, and most controversial, component of the harp seal debate centers around whether or not the seal killing and the use of the seal corpses is indeed "humane".
	www.american.edu /TED/harp.htm (4018 words)

	Ban the Canadian Harp Seal Hunt
		MYTH 3: Although seals did not demolish the cod stocks (it is generally accepted that human “overfishing” was the primary cause of the collapse), seals have now unfortunately grown “out of balance” with the relatively small number of cod that are left (5).
		It is argued on this basis that seals should have their numbers reduced to restore a more “normal” seal:fish ratio in the sea, and that, while seals must suffer now for the mistakes of the fishing industry, it should be remembered that people and their livelihoods are more important than the lives of seals.
		In comparison to seals, the fishing industry is young and inept, because humans have not found a way to positively integrate their feeding and excretory habits with the lives of fish, a feat accomplished by seals 25 million years ago.
	www.fisherycrisis.com /seals/noharpsealhunt.htm (6635 words)

	about16 Harp Seal Experiences
		Harp Seals never touch land but spent their entire life on and with the ice.
		Harp Seal pups are that beautiful pure white color for only three weeks, so timing your visit is everything for the serious photographer.
		The biggest most accessible population of calving Harp Seals is on the ice fields surrounding the Magdalene Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
	www.raydoan.com /abouts/about16.htm (242 words)

	CRESLI harp seal page
		The harp seal's scientific name means "ice loving seal of Greenland" which is fitting for these inhabitants of the polar pack ice.
		During the 1700 and 1800's harp seals provided millions of barrels of oil that was shipped back to Europe where it was used mainly for lamp oil and lubricants.
		After Canadian Fisheries scientists discovered that the harp seal's population had become drastically reduced in the 1950's, the Government instituted quotas to reduce the killing.
	www.cresli.org /cresli/seals/harpseal.html (362 words)

	The Harp Seal by Jim Cornish, Gander Academy
		Harp seals get their name from a horse-shaped band of fl fur on the back of the male adults.
		Harp seals of the Canadian Arctic gather in large herds to bear their young, feed and mate off the shores of Newfoundland.
		The harp seal pups are not the only ones that molt or shed their fur.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/harp_seals.htm (1037 words)

	Harp Seal Population
		While the harp seal population in the Eastern ice fields of the White Sea was assumed to number between 600,000 and 700,000, new estimates now put the figure in the range of 1.5 to 2 million animals.
		Estimates of the seal stock are based on calculations of the number of young born each year.
		Based on the 1997 surveys of the hooded seal population in the Western ice breeding patches, provisional analyses indicated that the quota should be reduced.
	www.maninnature.com /MMammals/Seals/Seals1a.html (733 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Seal hunt
		A harp seal sits on a ice floe in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, P.E.I. on Monday March 28, 2005 as a sealing boat from Newfoundland waits in the background.
		The IFAW also charges that seals are often "skinned before being rendered fully unconscious" and said its observers found that few sealers check for a blinking reflex to confirm brain death before skinning begins.
		The DFO flatly denies that it subsidizes the seal hunt.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/sealhunt (1351 words)

	Oceanarium: Harp Seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The next one is Seamore the Seal and is a Beanie Baby, then a little Soft Spot Seal from Ganz, a large baby Harp Seal from the Stuffed Animal House is next and last at far right is a baby Harp Seal from Hansa Plush.
		The harp seal migrates with the seasons and in winter follows the floes of the open ice as far south as Newfoundland.
		The adult male harp seal is light gray to yellowish with a dark brown or fl face and a brown band marking across its back and sides.
	www.jeannieshouse.com /oceanarium/harp_seal/harp_seal.html (323 words)

	LiveScience.com - New U.S. Tourist: Arctic Harp Seal
		Federal researchers say 297 harp seals were reported on beaches from Virginia to Maine last year, almost double the 152 reported in 1995.
		The booming arctic harp seal population in Canada, spurred by a hunting ban, and dwindling food sources such as cod are among the reasons being cited.
		Adult harp seals, named because of a harp-shaped marking on their backs, are gray with fl faces, reaching maturity in four to six years, weighing about 300 pounds and measuring about six feet.
	www.livescience.com /animalworld/060516_harp_seals.html (582 words)

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		Males and female harp seals are approximately 1.7 meters (5.6 feet) long and weigh 130 kilograms (286 pounds).
		Harp seals are closely associated with pack ice and undertake spring migrations of up to 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) on their way to summer feeding grounds, returning south ahead of the new ice in the fall.
		Seals from the Northwest Atlantic population give birth to one pup between late February and mid-March; the White Sea population between mid-February and early March; and the Jan Mayen population from mid-March until April.
	www.ifaw.org /ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=13015 (701 words)

	Harpseals.org -- Working to end the Canadian harp seal hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The number of seals killed by sealers must be added to the number of seals that died from drowning due to the unusually poor ice conditions.
		The seal pups were born on the thin ice pans scattered around the Gulf, but many, if not most, drowned as the ice broke up in the unseasonably warm weather.
		Harp seals are undoubtedly some of the most beautiful and gentle creatures on earth.
	www.harpseals.org (4296 words)

	Animal Planet :: Mammal Guide -- Marine
		Harp seals migrate in large groups as much as five thousand miles (8,000 km) from feeding grounds in the north to breeding grounds in the south.
		By June the harp seals are moving northward again, swimming and cavorting in the frigid water.
		There are three populations of this gregarious seal: one off Newfoundland, one in the Arctic Ocean, and one off Greenland.
	animal.discovery.com /guides/mammals/habitat/marine/harpseal.html (225 words)

	Harp Seal Skull Replica
		Harp Seal Skull - The harp seal, also called the Greenland and saddleback seal, is found in the Arctic and northern Atlantic oceans.
		Primarily pelagic, harp seals live in the open sea and on pack ice.
		Harp seals can grow up to 6 ft.(2m) in length and 350 lbs.(160 kg) in weight.
	www.skullsunlimited.com /harp_seal_skull.html (122 words)

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