(Table 1) Tagging date, total length and sex of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) tagged at Point Barrow, Alaska

• Main Authors: Quakenbush, Lori T, Citta, John J, George, John C, Small, Robert J, Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2010
• Subjects: Area/locality; Balaena mysticetus; total length; Barrow; Alaska; USA; BIO; Biology; DATE/TIME; Duration; number of days; Identification; International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Method comment; Pt_Barrow; Sex; Chukchi Sea; Wrangel Island; Arctic; Chukchi; Chukotka; International Polar Year; Point Barrow
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.819005; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.819005

Working with subsistence whale hunters, we tagged 19 mostly immature bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) with satellite-linked transmitters between May 2006 and September 2008 and documented their movements in the Chukchi Sea from late August through December. From Point Barrow, Alaska, most whales...