Annual survival probabilities of anadromous arctic char remain high and stable despite interannual differences in sea ice melt date

• Published in: Arctic Science
• Main Authors: Caza-Allard, Isabeau, Mazerolle, Marc J., Harris, Les N., Malley, Brendan K., Tallman, Ross F., Fisk, Aaron T., Moore, Jean Sébastien
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2021
• Subjects: Acoustic telemetry; Arctic Char; Capture–mark–recapture; Fisheries management; Salvelinus alpinus; Arctic; Nunavut; Canada; Cambridge Bay; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/glierpub/274; https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2020-0029

Throughout their range, anadromous Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus (Linnaeus, 1758)) support commercial, recreational, and subsistence fisheries that are important economically, socially, and culturally. However, drivers of interannual variation in survival in this species remain poorly understood....