During peak pupping season, a 150-foot distance is the best gift you can give a newborn Hawaiian monk seal pup and its mother. Report all seal sightings to the NOAA Marine Wildlife Hotline: (888) 256-9840.
It’s Seal and Sea Lion Week! Join us as we follow the journey of a resilient endangered pup who found a second chance after a life-saving trip from Alaska to California.
Scientists flew more than 24,000 miles over sea ice to study the abundance and distribution of seals in the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas. This was the first time the seals’ entire geographic range in U.S. waters was surveyed in one season.
New research on haul-out behavior helps to more accurately estimate the number of ice seals in the Arctic, and improve our efforts to conserve and monitor their populations.
This report details marine mammal stranding rates, trends, and activities in the United States for both 2022 and 2023. In 2022, there were 6,061 confirmed marine mammal strandings; in 2023, there were 6,648.
