• Press Releases
  • Tracking Rehab Gray Seal
  • Gray Seal Molting Season
  • UAV Gray Seal Pupping Surveys
  • 2015 Gray Seal Pup Study
  • Seal Cam
  • 2013 Adult Gray Seal Capture
• Projects and Collaborations
  • 2013 Chatham Gray Seal Capture Project
  • Gray Seal Pupping Cam
  • December 2012 Long Island Harbor Seal Capture Project
  • 2011/2012 Harbor Seal Tagging and Abundance Estimation Project
  • 2001 Southern New England Seals Live-Capture and Radio Tagging Project
• Surveys
• Stock Assessments
  • Harbor Seal (2012 report)
  • Gray Seal (2012 report)
  • Harp Seal (2012 report)
  • Hooded Seal (2007 report)
• Links
  • NOAA Protected Resources Pinniped Page
  • The Northwest Atlantic Seal Research Consortium
  • The Marine Animal Identification Network
  • Cape Cod Stranding Network
  • The Seal Conservation Society
  • Whalenet Satellite Tagging
  • Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies seal programs
  • Cape Cod National Seashore
  • Massachusetts Audubon - Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
  • The Riverhead Foundation
  • Seals and sealing in Canada
  • International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Harp and Hooded Seal Working Group
  • Save the (Narragansett) Bay Seal Page

2013 Gray Seal Tagging

In June 2013 more than two dozen researchers collaborated on the region's first gray seal live capture project in Chatham Harbor, Massachusetts. Partners included NEFSC's Protected Species Branch, NOAA Fisheries Northeast Regional Office, Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, Duke University, Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, Marine Mammals of Maine, National Marine Life Center, the University of New England, the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service. Funding for PSB's work was provided by BOEM through the AMAPPS project. Twenty adult gray seals were captured and sampled and nine were fitted with GPS phone tags or satellite tags. Below is the track from a satellite-tagged seal. A track map from another seal can be viewed on the Whalenet website. See also NEFSC's press release on the project.