Narwhal Abundance in the Eastern Canadian High Arctic in 2013

• Published in: NAMMCO Scientific Publications
• Main Authors: Doniol-Valcroze, Thomas, Gosselin, Jean-François, Pike, Daniel G., Lawson, Jack W., Asselin, Natalie C., Hedges, Kevin, Ferguson, Steven H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2020
• Subjects: narwhal; Baffin Bay; summer stocks; abundance; aerial survey; double-platform; distance sampling; density surface modelling; fjords; Admiralty Inlet; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; Eclipse Sound; Greenland; Jones Sound; Smith Sound; Somerset Island; Baffin; inuit; Monodon monoceros; narwhal*; Smith sound
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/NAMMCOSP/article/view/5100; https://doi.org/10.7557/3.5100

In summer, narwhals (Monodon monoceros) migrate from Baffin Bay to northeastern Canada and northwest Greenland, where they are hunted by Inuit for subsistence. To prevent localized depletion, management of narwhals is based on summer stocks. The High Arctic Cetacean Survey (HACS), conducted in Augus...