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Current findings: Identifying the Stocks of Belugas in Nunavik: the Role of Genetics Studying the Movements and Migrations of Arctic Beluga Whales |
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Wildlife management is imperative in maintaining a sustainable population of a species for subsistence or commercial harvesting. Studies of population dynamics provide essential information for formulating management policies. Biologists of the Research Centre have many years of experience in conducting demographic studies on fish, mussels, waterfowl and beluga. Satellite tagging of beluga and banding of geese are carried out in collaboration with government scientists from the South to study the migration of these species. Age distribution in a population is an important in predicting its future status. Technicians at the Centre are proficient in carrying out age determination of fish, shellfish, caribou and marine mammals by examining layers of calcareous material deposited annually in thin sections of teeth of mammals, scales and otoliths (ear stones) of fish and umbo (hinge) of shellfish. |
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