A Distinctive Large Breeding Population of Ringed Seals (Phoca hispida) Inhabiting the Baffin Bay Pack Ice

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Finley, K.J., Miller, G.W., Davis, R.A., Koski, W.R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1983
• Subjects: Aerial surveys; Age; Amphipoda; Animal distribution; Animal food; Animal integumentary systems; Animal physiology; Animal population; Animal waste products; Biological sampling; Dentition; Enzymes; Fast ice; Fishes; Genetics; Internal organs; Intestines; Measurement; Nematoda; Pack ice; Parasites; Seals (Animals); Size; Spatial distribution; Wildlife management; Baffin Bay-Davis Strait; Baffin Bay; Greenland; Phoques; Ringer; Arctic; Baffin; banquise; Davis Strait; Groenland; inuit; Phoca hispida
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65311

Aerial surveys in June and July, 1978 and 1979, documented an unexpectedly large population (at least 417,000) of ringed seals, some with pups, inhabiting the pack ice of Baffin Bay. Pack-ice seals are smaller than their fast-ice counterparts and have a different diet and gut parasite load. Age and...