Ribbon seal. Photo: Mike Cameron, NOAA's National Marine Mammal Laboratory

Management

• 73 FR 16617, March 28, 2008. Announcement of a 90–day finding on a petition to list the ribbon seal as a threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Comment period through May 27, 2008.
• News Release, March 26, 2008
• Receipt of Petition Letter, January 2, 2008
• Center for Biological Diversity Petition to List the Ribbon Seal as a Threatened or Endangered Species Under the ESA, December 2007

• Agreement between the Ice Seal Committee (ISC) and NMFS for the Co-Management of Alaskan Ice Seal Populations, October 2006

• Ice Seal Stock Assessment Reports

Research

• NMML Polar Ecosystems Program
• Ice Seal Abundance Survey, April 2008
• Ice Seal Breeding Ecology Cruise, April 2008
• Field Report from the Oscar Dyson, Ice Seal Research and Satellite Tagging, May 2007
• Ice Seal Operations, April 2006


• Arctic Ice Seals (species studied)
• Bearded Seals
• Kotzebue Sound Bearded Ice Seal Satellite Tagging Project (external link)
• Ribbon Seals
• Ringed Seals
• Spotted Seals
• Alaska Nanuuq Commission Ice Seal Committee (external link)

• 73 FR 9535, February 21, 2008. Notification of Incidental Harassment Authorizations (IHAs) to take marine mammals, by Level-B harassment, incidental to conducting on-ice marine geophysical research and seismic surveys by CGGVeritas (Veritas) and Shell Offshore, Inc. (SOI) in the U.S. Beaufort Sea.

Spotted seal pup on ice. Photo: NOAA's National Marine Mammal Laboratory

• Shell Offshore, Inc. Open Water Exploration and Appraisal Drilling Program (external link)
• Beaufort Sea Seals (external link)

• Ice Seal Strandings 1982-2004