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SCS: Ribbon Seal (Phoca fasciata)
Bering Sea population. The species is referred to by some scientists as Histriophoca fasciata. Photo: Kathy Frost, Alaska ... and Beaufort Seas. It has been suggested however that most of the seals, including those from the Okhotsk Sea, become pelagic near the edge of the continental shelf in summer and autumn. Pupping and ...
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SCS: Ringed Seal (Phoca hispida)
It has also recently been reported that the waters off Sakhalin Island in the Okhotsk Sea are about to be opened up to massive oil and gas development, and that tanker ... viability of the Gulf of Finland population. Toxic chemicals and metals in the heavily-polluted Baltic Sea have been blamed for pathological changes, disease and lowered reproductive capability in ringed seals. Although ...
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Nov.2, 2008, Dalian, China "Effects of Climate Change on the World's Oceans" Symposium May 2008, Spain PICES International Summer School on Ecosystem Based Management August 23-26, 2008, Hakodate, Japan 4th PICES Workshop on Okhotsk Sea and adjacent waters August 27-29, 2008 Abashiri, Japan ICES PICES GLOBEC Symposium August 26-29, 2008, Galway, Ireland ...
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2006 Meeting in St. Kitts & Nevis
Workplan for the coming year. As a result of certain incidents that happened at sea last year, the Commission passed a resolution by consensus dealing with the safety of vessels engaged in ... 2). Japan introduced a proposal to allow the taking of up to 150 minke whales from the Okhotsk Sea-West Pacific stock of the North Pacific each year until 2009 or until the quota based on ...
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Lives of Whales
Distribution: The North Pacific Ocean the small western population ranges from Korea in the south to the Okhotsk Sea in the north, and the large eastern population from Mexico in the south to the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Sea in the north Migration: Between high-latitude feeding grounds in summer and lower-latitude breeding grounds in winter Primary prey: ...
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The Benefits to China and East Asia in Tapping Remote Renewable Energy Resources - August 1998 - Electricity Transmission - Technical Articles - Index Library - GENI - Global Energy Network Institute
Recent Chinese/Russian trade cooperation could enable the hydropotential of the Ob, Yenisey, Lena and Kolyma River systems to be tapped for import. The Penzhinaskaya Gulf in the Okhotsk Sea offers one of the world's premier tidal sites (80 GW potential). Both the Mongolian and Tibetan Plateau have enormous ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – Search
IUCN Red List from Endangered to Critically Endangered (under the 1996 categories and criteria). Its principal summer feeding area is off Sakhalin Island in the Russian sector of the Okhotsk Sea, where a major oil and gas field is being developed by a multinational energy consortium (Weller et al. 2002). ...
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Arctic Studies Center
North Pacific, which includes the Arctic, Bering, and Okhotsk seas. They are most commonly seen flying near land, coming or leaving the breeding colonies to feed ... a few nests and some very large. The largest colony is found on Talan Island in the Okhotsk Sea and has more than one million nests! Tufted Puffin Photo Eric P. Hoberg 19th Century Naturalist ...
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Global 200 Ecoregions: Marine
Mediterranean Mediterranean Sea North Temperate Atlantic Northeast Atlantic Shelf Marine Grand Banks Chesapeake Bay North Temperate Pacific Yellow Sea Okhotsk Sea Southern Ocean Patagonian Southwest Atlantic Southern Australian Marine New Zealand Marine TEMPERATE UPWELLING 208 209 210 211 North Temperate Indo-Pacific California Current South Temperate Atlantic ...
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Steller Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus) - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
Pacific Ocean rim from northern Hokkaiddo, Japan through the Kuril Islands and Okhotsk Sea, Aleutian Islands and central Bering Sea, southern coast of Alaska and south to California. The population is ... population segments" (DPSs) at 144 West longitude (Cape Suckling, Alaska). The Western DPS includes Steller sea lions that reside in the central and western Gulf of Alaska, Aleutian Islands, as well ...
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