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Article: Summer and Autumn Movements of Belugas of the Eastern Beaufort Sea Stock.
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- September 1, 2001
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P.R. RICHARD [1]
A.R. MARTIN [2]
J.R. ORR [1]
(Received 18 November 1999; accepted in revised form 30 May 2000)
ABSTRACT. Beluga whales of the eastern Beaufort Sea stock were tagged with satellite-linked time-depth recorders and tracked during summer and autumn in 1993, 1995, and 1997. Whales occupied the Mackenzie estuary intermittently and for only a few days at a time. They spent much of their time offshore, near or beyond the shelf break and in the polar pack ice of the estuary, or in Amundsen Gulf, M'Clure Strait, and Viscount Melville Sound. The movements of tagged belugas into the polar pack and into passages of the Canadian ...