NWT Wildlife Sketches, Whales of the Northwest Territories (GNWT, 1993)
An educational guide describing the four main whale species found in the Northwest Territories—bowhead, beluga, narwhal, and killer whale—covering their biology, distribution, migration patterns, hunting practices, conservation status, and management by Canadian federal authorities.
- Date
- 1993
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- Department of Renewable Resources, Northwest Territories Renewable Resources, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, International Whaling Commission
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Canadian Arctic, Beaufort Sea, Amundsen Gulf, Bering Sea, Lancaster Sound, Davis Strait, Hudson Bay, Ungava Bay, Southeast Baffin, Baffin Bay, Mackenzie Delta, Inuvik, Cunningham Inlet, Somerset Island, Seal River, Nelson River, Churchill, Whale Cove, Pangnirtung, Lake Harbour, Iqaluit, Repulse Bay, Southampton Island, Thule, Smith Sound, Jones Sound, Hudson Strait, Foxe Basin, Arctic Bay, Pond Inlet, Broughton Island, Clyde River, Aklavik, Tuktoyaktuk, Rankin Inlet, Winnipeg, Montreal, Yellowknife, Greenland
- Parameters
- whale species distribution, bowhead whale, beluga whale, narwhal, killer whale, whale migration, whale reproduction, whale diet, whale hunting, subsistence hunting, commercial whaling, whale conservation, population estimates, endangered species, whale biology, ice habitat, muktuk, whale quotas
- Pages
- 8
Original document
Loading the document…