2001b. Summer and autumn movements of belugas of the eastern Beaufort Sea stock

• Main Author: P. R. Richard
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Bering Strait; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Chukchi Sea; Mackenzie Delta; Melville Sound; Viscount Melville Sound; Amundsen Gulf; Arctic Archipelago; Beaufort Sea; Beluga; Beluga*; Chukchi; Delphinapterus leucas
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.517.8033; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic54-3-223.pdf

ABSTRACT. Beluga whales of the eastern Beaufort Sea stock were tagged with satellite-linked time-depth recorders and tracked during summer and autumn in 1993, 1995, and 1997. Whales occupied the Mackenzie estuary intermittently and for only a few days at a time. They spent much of their time offshor...