Size-at-age relationships as discriminators of white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) stocks in the eastern Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: Stewart, Robert E. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Danish Polar Center/Museum Tusculanum Press 1994
• Subjects: Arctic; Cumberland Sound; Grise Fiord; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Jones Sound; Pangnirtung; Arviat; Baffin; Delphinapterus leucas; inuit; White whale
• Online Access: https://tidsskrift.dk/meddrgroenland_biosci/article/view/142552

White whales harvested by Inuit at Arviat on western Hudson Bay, Pangnirtung on Cumberland Sound and Grise Fiord on the north side of Jones Sound were sampled for analysis of size and age in 1984-87. The sampling sites are thought to represent western Hudson Bay, Southeast Baffin and High Arctic sto...