. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1991 Richard: Status of the Belugas of SE Baffin Island 207. Figure 1. Adult (white) and calf (dark) Beluga, Belukha, or White Whale. southeast Baffin Island, Belugas concentrate in summer at the head of Cumberland Sound, particularly at the Ranger River estuary in Clearwater Fiord (Figure 3). They also occur in small numbers along the south coast of Cumber- land Sound, the coast of Hall Peninsula and inside Frobisher Bay (Richard et al. in press). Monthly catch records also indicate that some Belugas also summer near Lake Harbour (D. Pike, DFO, Iqaluit, Northw
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1991 Richard: Status of the Belugas of SE Baffin Island 207. Figure 1. Adult (white) and calf (dark) Beluga, Belukha, or White Whale. southeast Baffin Island, Belugas concentrate in summer at the head of Cumberland Sound, particularly at the Ranger River estuary in Clearwater Fiord (Figure 3). They also occur in small numbers along the south coast of Cumber- land Sound, the coast of Hall Peninsula and inside Frobisher Bay (Richard et al. in press). Monthly catch records also indicate that some Belugas also summer near Lake Harbour (D. Pike, DFO, Iqaluit, Northwest Territories, personal communi- cation; see Limiting Factors). Spring and fall migrations, respectively north and south bound, are thought to take place along the coast of Hall Peninsula (Richard and Orr 1986). These movements correspond to the predominantly spring and fall hunting pattern of Iqaluit (Frobisher Bay) and Lake Harbour hunters (Richard and Orr 1986). The winter distribution of southeast Baffin Belugas is not clear, but is thought to range from the mouth of Frobisher Bay southward (Figure 3), and to overlap with the winter range of Hudson Bay populations which occupy Hudson Strait and western Davis Strait in winter (Richard and Orr 1986). Protection Beluga management in Canada is conducted by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) under the authority of the Fisheries Act of 1867 and the Beluga Protection Regulations, as amended to date, which provide for the protection of habitat, management of the species, and control of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
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