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, ...

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 ...

On a windswept beach near Haines, Tim Ackerman walks down a hill with a pair of gloves, a knife, and a bottle of Dawn dish soap to kneel beside the carcass of a harbor seal. The flesh of its head ...