BIOLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS IN HUDSON BAY: I. HUDSON BAY AND THE DETERMINATION OF FISHERIES

• Published in: Contributions to Canadian Biology and Fisheries
• Main Author: HUNTSMAN, A. G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1931
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Engineering; General Environmental Science; Arctic; Hudson Bay; Hudson
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f31-022; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f31-022

The waters of Hudson bay, though potentially rich, do not present suitable conditions for the development of fisheries of any magnitude. Fresh water from an extensive drainage basin mixes only superficially with the salt water, so that the bay has an estuarial character, apart from the somewhat barren deeper arctic water, with the fisheries largely those of the rivers emptying into it.