Climate variability, oceanography, bowhead whale distribution, and Iñupiat subsistence whaling near Barrow, Alaska

• Main Authors: Ashjian, Carin J., Campbell, Robert G., George, John C., Kruse, Jack, Maslowski, Wieslaw, Moore, Sue E., Nicolson, Craig R., Okkonen, Stephen R., Sherr, Barry F., Sherr, Evelyn B., Spitz, Yvette H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Arctic Institute of North America 2010
• Subjects: Bowhead whale; Plankton; Oceanography; Beaufort Sea; Subsistence whaling; Barrow Canyon; Arctic; Balaena mysticetus; Barrow; bowhead whale; Alaska; Copepods
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10945/62448

The annual migration of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) past Barrow, Alaska, has provided subsistence hunting to Iñupiat for centuries. Bowheads recurrently feed on aggregations of zooplankton prey near Barrow in autumn. The mechanisms that form these aggregations, and the associations between w...