Research and Monitoring. 1. The Parties shall co-ordinate their research programmes and projects and their monitoring of the seal population to increase their knowledge of the biology and the habitats including harmful effects of human activities on the seal population to provide a basis for measures to improve its conservation status. 2. They shall, in particular, monitor and co-ordinate their research on, a) population trends e.g. through periodic aerial surveys and counts; b) seal migration; c) seal population parameters, e.g. diseases, survival, age structure, sex ratio.
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Sources: Agreement on the Conservation of Seals in the Wadden Sea, Agreement on the Conservation of Seals in the Wadden Sea, Agreement on the Conservation of Seals in the Wadden Sea