Characteristics of White Whale Migration toward the Coast (Kharakteristika Podkhoda Belukhi k Beregram)

Data on white whale (beluga) sightings and catches along the west coast of Kanin Peninsula (Tarkhanov region) in 1955-1958 and off southern Novaya Zemlya in 1957 are used to identify the relation between food supply (fish), seasonal temperatures, tidal phase and beluga migrations. (Author) Trans. of...

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Main Author: Tarasevich,M. N.
Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE WASHINGTON D C
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1974
Subjects:
Biological Oceanography
*WHALES
COASTAL REGIONS
FISHES
SEASONAL VARIATIONS
CETACEA
TIDES
FOOD
USSR
*Barents Sea
*Animal migrations
Barents Sea
Tarkhanov
Beluga
Beluga*
Kanin peninsula
Novaya Zemlya
White whale
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0776220
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Summary:Data on white whale (beluga) sightings and catches along the west coast of Kanin Peninsula (Tarkhanov region) in 1955-1958 and off southern Novaya Zemlya in 1957 are used to identify the relation between food supply (fish), seasonal temperatures, tidal phase and beluga migrations. (Author) Trans. of Polyarnyi Nauchno-Issledovatelskii Institut Morskogo Rybnogo Khozyaistva i Okeanografii. Trudy (USSR) n12 p146-153 1960, by V. Astvazaturov.

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