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A resource regime is the government or regulated control over a resource. In this case the resource was the seals for their meat and fur. The Canadian federal government has current control over the seal harvests and sets the limits to be collected each season and has set the department of fisheries and oceans in control of regulating the resource.

On the left there is a picture of a male seal fur ready to be made into a jacket. On the right is a market in greenland selling the seal meat to the local villages along the coast lines.

The marine mammal act controls, regulates, and dictates how mammals such as the harp seal are harvested as a resource. This makes the resource open but with restrictions. The diagram below shows how the biomass of the resource will change though out the different regimes bases, both consumer and resouce based. It illistrates that, the resouce will collaspse and then enter a recover phase and continue in the repeting cycle. The second graph shows a similar point but focuses on it being either top down controlled or bottom up controlled, and shows the same cycle between recovery and collapse.