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At least 15 seal species are currently hunted, but the majority of hunted animals belong to five species: harp seals, ringed seals, grey seals, hooded seals and cape fur seals. [3] The seal populations that are hunted for commercial purposes – an estimated 15 million animals – are generally not endangered.
In 1983, the European Union banned the import of whitecoat harp seal pup pelts (pelts from pups less than about two weeks of age, when the pups molt). As a result, the market for pelts dropped. The kill rates thus declined in subsequent years to an average of about 52,000 seals from 1983 to 1995. During this time, the harp seal population ...
The number of pups born on one of England's best-known seal sites is levelling out, figures suggest. A group that counts grey seal pups on a five-mile (8km) stretch of Norfolk coast around Horsey ...
Seal culling in Namibia is a contentious issue, with animal rights groups opposing the practice as brutal, but the government supporting it and claiming the brown fur seal population may damage the fishing industry which is strategic to the Namibian economy. Seal harvesting in Namibia targets 86,000 seal pups and 6,000 adult bulls. [when?
Ecologists have finally identified the mystery culprit behind decapitated seal pups turning up along California's North Coast: coyotes. ... coyotes hunted seals, but it has never been documented ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association has increased efforts to keep people away from harbor seals after two pup deaths this season. Harbor seal pups die after beachgoers take them home ...
Adult harp seals grow to be 1.7 to 2.0 m (5 ft 7 in to 6 ft 7 in) long and weigh from 115 to 140 kg (254 to 309 lb). [1] The harp seal pup often has a yellow-white coat at birth due to staining from amniotic fluid, but after one to three days, the coat turns white and stays white for 2–3 weeks, until the first molt. [2]
Rare black seal pups have been spotted and photographed by visitors at a Lincolnshire nature reserve. The grey seal pups at Donna Nook are normally born white and shed their fur at about two to ...