Migration timing and overwintering habitat of anadromous Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus) near Kugluktuk, Nunavut

• Main Author: Smith, Rosie Luain
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2020
• Subjects: Arctic Char; acoustic telemetry; fluvial overwintering; winter ecology; migration; Arctic; Coronation Gulf; Kugluktuk; Nunavut; Coppermine River; inuit; Kitikmeot; Salvelinus alpinus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/16016

Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus) is a key component of subsistence diets in Inuit communities across the Arctic. The Hamlet of Kugluktuk, in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut, relies on the Coppermine River to support an important fishery of anadromous (i.e., sea-run) Arctic Char, which feed in the oc...