NWT Wildlife Sketches: Walrus of the Northwest Territories (GNWT, 1993)
This is an educational sketch about Atlantic and Pacific walrus species, covering their physical characteristics, distribution, behaviour, feeding ecology, reproduction, migration patterns, management by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and utilization by Inuit and other northern communities.
- Date
- 1993
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- Department of Renewable Resources, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Inuit
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Atlantic waters, Pacific waters, Hudson Bay, James Bay, Baffin Island, Davis Strait, Foxe Basin, Devon Island, Ellesmere Island, Southampton Island, Cumberland Sound, Frobisher Bay, Hudson Strait, Eastern Arctic, Igloolik, Hall Beach, Lake Harbour, Greenland, Eastern Russia, Alaska, Eastern Canada, Norway, Western Russia, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Cape Breton Island, Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Bay of Fundy, Labrador, Whale Cove, Coral Harbour, Sanikiluaq, Arctic Bay, Clyde River, Quebec, Newfoundland
- Parameters
- walrus population, walrus distribution, hunting regulations, walrus biology, reproduction, migration, feeding behaviour, tusks, mortality, parasites, predation, aerial surveys
- Pages
- 6
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