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--Boundary_(ID_5Q5/ML8MjQs6V9mPMIJyMQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable I hope a lot of you saw this in yesterday's Chronicle Herald. So =20 Eric Mills' sighting of an adult harp seal along our Atlantic Shore =20 might not be unusual this year. Jim in Wolfville. Chronicle Herald, Monday, March 21, 2011 http://thechronicleherald.ca/World/1234134.html Harp seals showing up in U.S. waters By CLARKE CANFIELD The Associated Press Mon, Mar 21 - 4:54 AM [photo][deleted here by JW] A juvenile harp seal rests on an ice-covered dock in Boston Harbor. (AP) PORTLAND, Maine =97 Harp seals from Canada are showing up in U.S. =20 waters in greater numbers and farther south than usual, and =20 biologists want to know why. Small numbers of juvenile harp seals are typically found each winter =20 stranded along the coast of the northeastern United States. But this =20 year, well over 100 adult harp seals =97 not juveniles =97 have been =20 spotted, said Mendy Garron, regional marine mammal stranding co-=20 ordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in =20 Gloucester, Mass.. The sightings are reported by 14 seal stranding =20 and rehabilitation organizations in New England and the Middle =20 Atlantic states. "In some areas they=92re reporting three times the normal number of =20 sightings," Garron said. "This year, we=92ve had four sightings of =20 adult harp seals in North Carolina, which we=92ve never had before. We =20= typically don=92t see them that far south." [article had a bit more info']= --Boundary_(ID_5Q5/ML8MjQs6V9mPMIJyMQ) Content-type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I hope a lot of you saw this in = yesterday's Chronicle Herald. So Eric Mills' sighting of an adult = harp seal along our Atlantic Shore might not be unusual this year. = Jim in Wolfville.<div><br></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Chronicle = Herald, Monday, March 21, 2011</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001ee6"><a = href=3D"http://thechronicleherald.ca/World/1234134.html">http://thechronic= leherald.ca/World/1234134.html</a></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 35px; "><font = face=3D"Georgia" size=3D"7" style=3D"font: 32.0px Georgia">Harp seals = showing up in U.S. waters </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = line-height: 35px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: = rgb(30, 30, 30); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"3" color=3D"#818181" style=3D"font: 11.0px Arial; = color: #818181">By CLARKE CANFIELD The Associated Press</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"3" color=3D"#818181" = style=3D"font: 11.0px Arial; color: #818181">Mon, Mar 21 - 4:54 = AM</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <table = width=3D"224.0" cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0" style=3D"width: = 224.0px; padding: 2.0px 12.0px 2.0px 0.0px"> <tbody> <tr> <td = valign=3D"middle" style=3D"width: 220.0px; padding: 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px = 2.0px"> <table width=3D"220.0" cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0" = style=3D"width: 220.0px; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 20.0px = 0.0px 20.0px 0.0px"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign=3D"top" style=3D"width: = 180.0px; background-color: #f0f0f0; padding: 0.0px 20.0px 0.0px = 20.0px"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; = color: rgb(30, 30, 30); min-height: 14px; ">[photo][deleted here by = JW]</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(30, 30, 30); min-height: 14px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#666666" style=3D"font: 11.0px Arial; color: #666666">A = juvenile harp seal rests on an ice-covered dock in Boston Harbor. = (AP)</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(30, 30, 30); min-height: 14px; = "></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px = 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #1e1e1e; min-height: 14.0px"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: = 14px; ">PORTLAND, Maine =97 Harp seals from Canada are showing up in = U.S. waters in greater numbers and farther south than usual, and = biologists want to know why.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial">Small numbers of = juvenile harp seals are typically found each winter stranded along the = coast of the northeastern United States. But this year, well over 100 = adult harp seals =97 not juveniles =97 have been spotted, said Mendy = Garron, regional marine mammal stranding co-ordinator for the National = Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Gloucester, Mass.. The = sightings are reported by 14 seal stranding and rehabilitation = organizations in New England and the Middle Atlantic = states.</font></p><p style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; = line-height: 18.0px"><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = 14.0px Arial">"In some areas they=92re reporting three times the normal = number of sightings," Garron said. "This year, we=92ve had four = sightings of adult harp seals in North Carolina, which we=92ve never had = before. We typically don=92t see them that far south."</font></p><p = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 14px; line-height: = normal;">[article had a bit more = info']</span></font></p></div></body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_5Q5/ML8MjQs6V9mPMIJyMQ)--
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