Variation in Reproduction and Body Condition of the Ringed Seal (Phoca hispida) in Western Prince Albert Sound, NT, Canada, as Assessed Through a Harvest-based Sampling Program

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Harwood, Lois A., Smith, Thomas G., Melling, Humfrey
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2000
• Subjects: Amundsen Gulf; body condition; ice; ovulation; Prince Albert Sound; ringed seal; golfe Amundsen; état corporel; glace; baie Prince-Albert; phoque annelé; Canada; Northwest Territories; Phoques; Arctic; Inuvialuit; Phoca hispida
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63929

Between 1992 and 1998, 869 ringed seals taken in the subsistence harvest in western Prince Albert Sound were sampled by two Inuvialuit seal monitors from Holman, Northwest Territories. Considering the 1992-98 data along with data from 1971-78, we found that the mean body-mass index (BMI) values for...