ARCTIC Photographic Reidentification of a Bowhead Whale in Davis Strait

Baffin Island, on 28 September 1986 was reidentified from a photograr taken off West Greenland on 10 April 1990. The “recapture ” distance was about 460 km across Davis Strait. The recapture is consistel with historical knowledge of the seasonal distribution of bowhead whales and is supportive of th...

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Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1991
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Key words
Balaena mysticetus
seasonal distribution
stock discreteness
Baffin Bay- Davis Strait
photographic identification
Arctic
Baffin Bay
Baffin Island
Greenland
Baffin
bowhead whale
Davis Strait
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.561.8123
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic44-3-254.pdf
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Summary:Baffin Island, on 28 September 1986 was reidentified from a photograr taken off West Greenland on 10 April 1990. The “recapture ” distance was about 460 km across Davis Strait. The recapture is consistel with historical knowledge of the seasonal distribution of bowhead whales and is supportive of the hypothesis that bowheads circulate with] the Baffin Bay- Davis Stait area as part of a discrete stock.

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