Vessel-based seal harvest totals based on sealing log books and official vessel and shore-based harvest rates according to Okhotskrybvod reports from 1972–1994 in the Sea of Okhotsk.

Abstract

<p>Note that these data do not include seals harvested in the west coast of Kamchatka (under jurisdiction of Kamchatrybvod). Abundance estimates are based on available population aerial survey results.</p