Ringed Seal Diet and Body Condition in the Amundsen Gulf region, Eastern Beaufort Sea

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Insley, Stephen J., Tauzer, Lila M., Halliday, William D., Illasiak, Joe, Green, Ryan, Kudlak, Adam, Kuptana, Jeff
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2021
• Subjects: ringed seal; Pusa hispida; diet; Amundsen Gulf; Beaufort Sea; Arctic; climate change; phoque annelé; régime alimentaire; golfe Amundsen; mer de Beaufort; Arctique; changement climatique; Mer de Beaufort; Navaga; Northwest Territories; Paulatuk; Phoques; Sachs Harbour; Ulukhaktok; Arctic cod; Arctique*; Boreogadus saida; Climate change; Subarctic; subarctique*; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; Themisto
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/72447

Diet from stomach contents and body condition from morphometric measurements were obtained for 169 (108 stomachs analysed) ringed seals (Pusa hispida) for the Amundsen Gulf region in the western Canadian Arctic from 2015 to 2018. Sampling was from subsistence-harvested seals from the three communiti...