Preference for nearshore and estuarine habitats in anadromous arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) from the Canadian high Arctic (Victoria island, Nunavut) revealed by acoustic telemetry

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
• Main Authors: Moore, Jean Sébastien, Harris, Les N., Kessel, Steven T., Bernatchez, Louis, Tallman, Ross F., Fisk, Aaron T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Nunavut; Cambridge Bay; Salvelinus alpinus; Victoria Island
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/glierpub/347; https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2015-0436

We used an array of fixed acoustic receivers (N = 42) to track the summer marine movements of 121 anadromous Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) equipped with acoustic transmitters at three locations in the Cambridge Bay region, where commercial and subsistence fisheries target the species. The timing...