Whitecoat

A whitecoat is a newborn harp or grey seal with soft, white fur.

The amniotic stain fades and the fur turns white within a few days, and it gets the name whitecoat.

While she is suckling, the mother does not eat—rather, she draws on her reserves of fatty blubber to produce the milk.

The United States banned the hunting and import of whitecoats in 1972, through the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

[4][5] Canada banned the offshore commercial hunting of whitecoats and bluebacks on December 30, 1987.