Ice Seal Tracking Maps Archive

From 15 to 29 April, we received locations for 1 bearded and 6 spotted seals. Bearded seal BS18-01-F (green square) was still in the central Chukchi Sea amongst heavy sea ice. One spotted seal was in the Chukchi Sea; SS18-03-F (aqua circle) was near Icy Cape along the Alaskan coast. Four spotted seals were in the central Bering Sea, south of St. Lawrence Island. Spotted seal SS18-06-M (yellow circle) was along the northern coast of Bristol Bay. Sea ice data are courtesy of the U.S. National Ice Center, dated 29 April 2019 (http://www.natice.noaa.gov/products/daily_products.html).