Marbled seal population rapidly declining

Jan 08, 2004
By Aleksei Gunter

TALLINN - Since most Estonian residents have never seen a marbled seal in the wild, they were surprised to find out that the population of these Estonia-based sea mammals has rapidly declined over the last several years though it could be slowly restored, according to Mart Jussi, a researcher from the Estonian Fund for Nature.There used to be a time when marbled seals, Phoca hispida, were spotted next to the Rusalka monument in the Tallinn harbor, when their total population in the Baltic Sea ex ...

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