Utility of Pop-Up Satellite Archival Tags to Study the Summer Dispersal and Habitat Occupancy of Dolly Varden in Arctic Alaska

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Courtney, Michael B., Scanlon, Brendan S., Rikardsen, Audun H., Seitz, Andrew C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2016
• Subjects: Chukchi Sea; dispersal; Dolly Varden; PSATs; mer des Tchouktches; dispersion; omble du Pacifique; PSAT; Arctic; Varden; Chukchi; Mer des Tchouktches; Tchouktche*; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67602

In Arctic Alaska, Dolly Varden Salvelinus malma is highly valued as a subsistence fish; however, little is known about its marine ecology. New advances in electronic tagging, such as pop-up satellite archival tags (PSATs), provide scientists with a fishery-independent means of studying several aspec...