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significantly higher temperatures than other areas at the same latitude. the flora take advantage of the long period of midnight sun to compensate for the polar night . svalbard is a breeding ground for many seabirds , and also features polar bears , reindeer , the arctic fox , and certain marine mammals
summer camps, but from the early s, a few individuals started to overwinter . whaling at spitsbergen lasted until the s, when the dutch, british, and danish whalers moved elsewhere in the arctic. [ ] by the late th century, russian hunters arrived; they overwintered to a greater extent and hunted land mammals...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard
restrictions, and then japan also embarked upon pelagic sealing. [ ] finally, the north pacific fur seal convention severely curtailed the sealing industry. signed on july , by the united states, great britain , japan, and russia, the treaty was designed to manage the commercial harvest of fur bearing mammals
and the marine mammal protection act of . [ ] [ ] today, commercial sealing is conducted by only five nations: canada, greenland, namibia, norway, and russia. the united states, which had been heavily involved in the sealing industry, now maintains a complete ban on the commercial hunting of marine mammals...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_hunting