Translation 2783

great -- slin•.ht1y more than 50,000. •i`he East
..... 52
Atlantic population is
the most'nùmerous -- about 40,000, of which about 36,000 inhabit the
British Tslès and adjacent islands (the 1.arie .t rookeries beinf^ those
of ^!orth Rona. (9,000), the Farne Islands (4,000), and some others);
Iceland. and the Faeroe Islands tiave about 3,000, and the- coast of
i;orwa.y 2,000 to 3,000.
'_,L'he
nui.niber of grey seals in the West Atlantic populi..tion is •
much :.oma,llel?: 5,000 live on tne coast of Eastern Canada. 'Aie number
in the ^?a.ltic Soi, exclusive of Soviet waters, is over 5,000. The,
total number inhabiting Soviet waters in the Baltic and on the hurmanslc
coast. is ltnknown, but it is certain that the stocks in the
Baltic are lar`,er than those on the Kola Peninsula (the approximate
number of adult females on the Ainovy Islands and the Sem' Vetrov
archipelago has been estimated at 500-•800) .
larg•c.
14 (on some
Because of the7.r small nurnber.s the take of grey seals is not
They are hunted mostly by the local fiskiin,; population in
areas where the animals concentz:ate.during the breeding season.
There is licensed shooting of seals on the coasts of Great i:ritain,
its extent d::pendir,g on the nurnbérs of seals in certain rookeries •
the animals) .
islands the annual kill limit arnount-s to some hundreds of
In spite of the fact that grey seals cause some losses
to fisheries on the coasts of England and 'Scotland, and are the hosts
of helminths t;iai: paa'asitize commercial fish specius, ottler supplementar.y
mea^.ures are applied to conserve their stocks: in some years
taking of tlicm during the breeding period is prohibited. '. :'he
total
amount of the kill of grey seals by Sweden, Denlnark, and ,'inland in
the "Bal.tic Ùea is unknown; a few hundreds are taken annually in _:oviet
waters.
The principal rookeries on the coasts of tue Kola Peninsula
are located in the ;•_a.ndalaks ha lieserve and its branches `the .'{inovy
Islands and the Sem' Vetrov archipel,,-q!,-o), where the t.akinEf; of tiie
sciais is prohibi ted, as well as elsewhere on th^. a.ltic :iCa coast.
Harbvur Seal .__ (-iocc,. i^t. _^__ ..^.-._.. vitulina L. 50)
Inti:asj?eci.îir, dif1.'erentiatioii of the .'-sU].nMtJ.o .:COr1:1 Of t110
harha.ur seal has not yet been a.dequa,taly confirmed.
tlireu :ubci^::cics in Atlantic waters lia.. Dc:e„
The ^xi stenco. of
A't:l.r.nLi.c: 1'0r1,1 v. vi Litl.X.»,L, 1.ILe 'tile;c't t.:I.,UiL.i.c .i'0.i:.,l !.. v. 0o11c0l0r,