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Sable Island Litter
Entangled seals are often seen on the island. The majority are caught in ... and others in scraps of monofilament net and pieces of plastic strapping. Most of the entangled seals have deep wounds where the entangling material cuts through hide, blubber and flesh. For ...
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Brothers of the seals
Meanwhile, Samantha Zacharof, 14, searches the pack for more entangled seals. Captured with a noose pole and pinned down, the seal struggles. Carefully, three teenagers immobilize ... Sea months ago and now embedded in putrid flesh. Curious northern fur seals play with floating trash and get entangled in the fishnet. As the animal grows, the debris cuts into its ...
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Marine Debris and Pollution
Also thought to be in decline are the Southern Elephant seals Mirounga leonina, with just 4,000 animals remaining, and the Southern Sea Lion Otaria flavescens ... dead inside a plastic sack, and two Falkland Flightless Steamer ducks Tachyeres brachypterus were found entangled, one in cord and rope and one with a plastic drinks yoke around its neck ...
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Sable Island Litter 4
Sable Island Litter 4 A young Grey Seal entangled in a scrap of trawl net. Seals are inquisitive and may be ensnared while inspecting floating objects at sea. This seal was captured and released.
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MMCG Projects and Experience
Grover Beach, California. Team demonstrated onsite disentanglement capabilities when whale entangled in fishing gear (not related to project) was cut free; • Marine wildlife ... Santa Barbara islands, California; • Participant in statewide censuses and studies of harbor seals in California for NOAA Fisheries; • Ongoing participation in coastwide study of endangered ...
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SCS: Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus)
Spanish deep water trawl fishery off Canada. The overall numbers of seals entangled decreased after the Greenland salmon gillnet and Atlantic Canada cod trap fisheries were ended in 1993. Entanglement of grey seals ... toll of grey seals entangled in the area's monkfish nets is higher than the number of grey seals born there each ...
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SCS: Harbour Seal (Phoca vitulina)
Harbour seals can become entangled and drown in ... gillnet fishery. A number of seals have also been entangled in nets of the Spanish deep water trawl fishery off Canada. The overall numbers of seals entangled decreased after the Greenland ...
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Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies | Whale Rescue | Introduction
Pot Diagram | Previous Disentanglements PLEASE REPORT WHALE ENTANGLEMENTS TO 1-800-900-3622 Introduction Badly entangled flukes of a humpback whale Since 1984, the Center for Coastal Studies has freed more ... whale*. Over the years PCCS has also disentangled other marine animals, like dolphins and porpoises, seals and sea turtles. If you want to help support these endeavors, please consider becoming a ...
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CRESLI seal page
Some interesting facts about seals Seals are able to hold their breath for a long time ... a seal (or other marine mammal) that appears to be injured, entangled, or otherwise in distress, do not approach it. Call the ... the number of stranded harp seals actually exceeded harbor seals. In addition, a small number of ringed seals, another Arctic species, have stranded ...
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Monk Seals
Monk seals are classified as true seals, as opposed to fur seals or sea lions, since they have ... significant threat to the monk seals' recovery. In the past 20 years, more than 200 monk seals have been observed entangled in fishing gear ... which will help to protect the monk seals' habitat. Other anthropogenic threats faced by monk seals include ingestion of marine debris or ...
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