The Winter-Spring Distribution of the White Whale in the White Sea (Zimne-Vesennee Raspredelenie Belukhi v Belom More)

• Main Author: Khuzin,R. Sh.
• Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE WASHINGTON D C
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1974
• Subjects: Biological Oceanography; *Whales; *White Sea; Distribution; Winter; Sea ice; Bays; Migration; Seasonal variations; Translations; USSR; Delphinapterus levcas; Ice breakup; Central Basin; White Sea; Beluga; Beluga*; White whale
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0784714; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0784714

The author summarizes data in the literature on white whale (beluga) distribution in the White Sea and reports his own observations made in 1957 and 1958. It is concluded that white whales winter in the central basin of the White Sea and in the northern Onezhskiy and Dvinskiy Bays. The wintering areas are restricted by the ice cover and white whales do not enter the White Sea from the outside until after the ice breakup in May. (Author) Trans. of Polyarnyi Nauchno-Issledovatelskii Institut Morskogo Rybnogo Khozyaistvi i Okeanograffi. Trudy (USSR) n12 p154-156 1960, by V. Astvazaturov.