"Iceland is by far and away the Puffin capital of the North Atlantic, supporting around 2.5–3 million pairs. In 1994 it was decreed that hunting with fleygs could only take place from 1 July to 15 August. Puffins arrive in Iceland in late April and leave at the end of August, so the open season for hunting was chosen to coincide with the maxim presence of the late-arriving immature birds to relieve hunting pressure on the May-June breeders. Thus non-breeding two- to four-year-olds have traditionally been claimed to comprise over 90 per cent of the catch, although nowadays many more nesting birds are allegedly killed in the hunt. As on the , Iceland's Puffins have declined catastrophically in recent years, with colonies in the south and west hardest hit. Records of the Puffin harvest reflect this: in the mid-1990s over 200,000 birds were caught annually in Iceland (by 100–200 hunters), compared with fewer than 40,000 in recent years."
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