Satellite-monitored movements of radio-tagged bowhead whales in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas during the late-summer feeding season and fall migration

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Zoology
• Main Authors: Mate, Bruce R, Krutzikowsky, Gregory K, Winsor, Martha H
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2000
• Subjects: Balaena mysticetus; Beaufort Sea; bowhead whale; Chukchi; Mackenzie Bay; Mackenzie river; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z00-045; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z00-045

From 30 August to 6 September 1992, we tagged 12 juvenile bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) with Argos satellite-monitored radio tags in the Canadian Beaufort Sea off the Mackenzie River Delta. Eight tags documented [Formula: see text]9820 km of movements between 392 locations during 111 whale-tra...