The authors hope findings from this study could inform co-management of seals and assist NOAA, the federal agency responsible for harbor seal management in Alaska, and with decision-making.

Exclusively in Iliamna Lake, Alaska’s largest body of freshwater, lives a small population of rare freshwater seals — one of only two freshwater harbor seal populations in the world. Alaska natives, ...

They were on that side when the seal washed up on the ... Marine Mammal Protection Act allows Alaska Native people, like Ackerman, to hunt species like harbor seals, sea otters, certain kinds ...

Harbor seals pups will soon start to populate the beaches in the northeastern U.S. during seal pupping season.

Spotted seals in some of the most remote marine areas around Alaska are consuming significant amounts of microplastics in their diets, according to a new University of Alaska Fairbanks–led study. The ...

Exclusively in Iliamna Lake, Alaska’s largest body of freshwater, lives a small population of rare freshwater seals — one of only two freshwater harbor seal populations in the world. Alaska natives, ...

Harbor seals pups will soon start to populate the beaches in the northeastern U.S. during seal pupping season. Harbor seals generally bear young from May to June in the northeastern U.S ...