Since its lowest point in the 1970s, the Baltic ringed seal population has grown from about 5,000 to 25,000 individuals.

I didn’t tell the girls to shoot it again, fearing the seal would sink to the bottom, irretrievable. I had done this once before, when hunting with my Dad. My nephew, Arctic, had wounded an ugruk.

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg warn that today's hunting quotas of about 3,000 animals pose a risk to the long-term survival of the grey seal in the Baltic Sea. The conclusions of ...

The seal population is now growing, but our research shows that, if the current hunting quota of 3,000 animals per year is met, the survival of the grey seal in the Baltic Sea will once again be ...

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A partnership between federal scientists and St. Paul Island tribes might guide Alaska’s marine mammals – and those who depend on them – through climate shifts.

Winners of the annual seal hunting competition posing in front of a dinghy, the competition prize, in Nuuk, Greenland. Credit: AP It took about an hour for the first hunter to come back with the seal.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper bit into a culinary controversy on Tuesday, dining on seal meat in symbolic defense of the country's embattled seal-hunting industry.

This year's seal hunt in Canada has also been called the biggest in decades. Last year, Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans increased the quota for the harvest of harp seals, allowing ...

Don't move!" A seal can see tall shadows against the whiteness of the ice. A seal, it is believed, can hear and understand humans. "You must keep low," she says, to better blend into the landscape.

Harper, who with key members of his cabinet is touring Canada's Far North, dined on seal ribs and liver in Iqaluit, where hunting seals for survival and trade is a traditional part of the Inuit ...