Seal populations on the rise

The newly updated indicator BS9 Seals tells a strory of the rebound seal populations in the Baltic Sea. The rebound is due to a decrease both in hunting pressure as well as in environmental toxin levels. Climate change has, however, emerged as a new threat to the southern subpopulations of the Ringed Seal that occur in the Gulf of Riga, eastern parts of the Gulf of Finland and in the Archipelago Sea.