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Reports, plans and newsletters about the fish and marine mammals of the ISR. All documents open from fjmc.ca or their original publisher.
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FJMC Technical Report Series
Newest first. From the 1986 count of Arctic char on the Hornaday River to Olokhaktomiut observations of winter bowhead whales in 2026.
Plans and frameworks
Fisheries management plans for char, Dolly Varden and inconnu are on the co-management page.
FJMC Beaufort Sea Beluga Management Plan
Inuvialuit Hunters and Trappers Committees: Beluga Hunting Bylaws and Guidelines
Beaufort Sea Integrated Fisheries Management Framework for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region Canada
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Fisheries Joint Management Committee, Inuvialuit Game Council, and Inuvialuit Regional Corporation. 2014. Beaufort Sea Integrated Fisheries Management Framework for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Canada. 64 p.
- Ayles, B., Porta, L. and Clarke, R. 2016. Development of an integrated fisheries co-management framework for new and emerging commercial fisheries in the Canadian Beaufort Sea. Marine Policy 72: 246-254.
Inuvialuit Community Conservation Plans
Co-Management
- Ayles, B., Bell, R., and Hoyt, A. 2007. Adaptive fisheries co-management in the Western Arctic. In Adaptive co-management: Collaboration, learning, and multi-level governance. Ed. Armitage, D., Berkes, F., and Doubleday, N. UBC Press, Vancouver. pp 125-150.
- Anguniaqvia Niqiqyuam Marine Protected Area Coastal Monitoring: Synthesis of 2017-2021 Summer and Winter Field Programs
Newsletters
FJMC Newsletter
Beluga Bulletin
In Tusaayaksat magazine
More publications
Published research on the ISR's fish, marine mammals and the Beaufort Sea, grouped as on fjmc.ca. Some links lead to DFO and other publishers.
Fish
- Arctic
- Alaska
- George, C., Moulton, L., and Johnson, M. 2009. A field guide to the common fishes of the North Slope of Alaska. North Slope Borough, Department of Wildlife Management, Barrow, AK.
- Thorsteinson, L.K., and Love, M.S., eds., 2016, Alaska Arctic marine fish ecology catalog: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5038 (OCS Study, BOEM 2016-048), 768 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ sir20165038.
- Arctic Char
- Paulatuk
- DFO. 1999. Hornaday River Arctic Charr - DFO Stock Status Report D5-68 (1999)
- Harwood, LA. 2009. Status of anadromous Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) of the Hornaday River, Northwest Territories, as assessed through harvest-based sampling of the subsistence fishery, August-September 1990-2007. Can. Manuscr. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2890: viii + 33 p.
- Ulukhaktok
- DFO. 2016. Proceedings of the regional peer review of the assessment of Arctic Char in the Ulukhaktok area of the Northwest Territories; February 15-17, 2016. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Proceed. Ser. 2016/021.
- Harwood, L.A., Sandstrom, S.J., Papst, M.H. and H. Melling. 2013. Kuujjua River Arctic Char: Monitoring Stock Trends Using Catches from an Under-Ice Subsistence Fishery, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, 1991 -2009. Arctic 66 (3): 291-300
- Paulatuk
- Broad Whitefish
- Dolly Varden Char
- Babbage River Dolly Varden
- Big Fish River Dolly Varden
- Rat River Dolly Varden
- DFO. 2001. Rat River Dolly Varden - DFO Stock Status Report D5-61 (2001)
- Harwood, L.A. 2001. Status of anadromous Dolly Varden char (Salvelinus malma) of the Rat River, Northwest Territories, as assessed through community-based sampling of the subsistence fishery, August-September 1989-2000. CSAS Research Document 2001/090
- Sandstrom, S., Harwood, L., and Howland, K. 2009. Status of anadromous Dolly Varden char (Salvelinus malma) of the Rat River, Northwest Territories, as assessed through mark-recapture and live-sampling at the spawning and overwintering site (1995-2007). Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2842: vi + 68 p.
- Husky Lakes
- Inconnu
Marine mammals
- Beluga
- DFO. 2000. Eastern Beaufort Sea Beluga Whales - Stock Status Report E5-38 (2000)
- Harwood, L.A., Kingsley, M.C.S., and Pokiak, F. 2015. Monitoring beluga harvests in the Mackenzie Delta and near Paulatuk, NT, Canada: harvest efficiency and trend, size and sex of landed whales, and reproduction, 1970-2009. Can. Manuscr. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3059: vi + 32 p.
- Hornby, C., Hoover, C., Joynt, A. Torontow, V., Hynes, K., and Loseto. L. 2014. Arrival of Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) to the Mackenzie Estuary in Relation to Sea Ice: Report on Spring 2011-2013 Aerial Surveys. Can. Data Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 1251: vii + 25 p.
- Harwood, L,A., Zhu, X., Angasuk, L., Emaghok, L., Ferguson, S., Gruben, C., Gruben, P., Hall,
P., Illasiak, J., Illasiak, J., Lennie, J., Lea, E.V., Loseto, L. L., Norton, P., Pokiak, C., Pokiak,
F., Rogers, H., Snow, K., and Storr, W. 2020. Research, Monitoring and Hunter Knowledge
in Support of the 2017 Assessment of the Eastern Beaufort Sea Beluga Stock. DFO Can.
Sci. Advis. Sec. Res. Doc. 2020/075. v + 48 p.
Invertebrates
Traditional and local knowledge
- Brewster, J. D., Neumann, D., Ostertag, S. K., and Loseto, L. L. 2016. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) at Shingle Point, YT: Observations on Changes in the Environment and Fish Populations. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3174: v + 23 p
- Hart, E.J. and Amos, B. 2004. Learning about marine resources and their use through Inuvialuit oral history = Tariurmiutuakun qanuq atuutiviksaitlu ilitchuriyaqput ingilraan Inuvialuit qulianginnin. Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre.
Beaufort Sea and marine
- Beaufort Sea Partnership. Integrated Ocean Management Plan for the Beaufort Sea: 2009 and beyond.
- Chirperzak, D. and Cockney, M. 2000. Results from the Tuktoyaktuk Community Marine Ecosystem Health (MEH) Workshop, January 25-26, 2000.
- Chirperzak, D. and Cockney, M. 2000. Results from the Aklavik Community Marine Ecosystem Health (MEH) Workshop, March 6-7, 2000.
- Cobb, D., H. Fast, M.H. Papst, D. Rosenberg, R. Rutherford and J.E. Sareault (Editors). 2008. Beaufort Sea Large Ocean Management Area: Ecosystem Overview and Assessment Report. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2780: ii-ix + 188 p.
- Eddy, S. 2001. Tuktoyaktuk and Aklavik Tariuq (Ocean) community-based monitoring program : results from the first indicators workshop, June 28, 2001, Aklavik, NWT. DFO.
- Fast, H., Mathias, J., Storace, F., Muir, M.A.K., Meltzeer, E. 1998. Marine conservation and beluga management in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region : can marine protected areas play a role? DFO, University of Manitoba, Natural Resource Institute.
- Muir, M.A.K. 1997. Analysis of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement and marine protected areas under the Oceans Act.
- Niemi, A., Johnson, J., Majewski, A., Melling, H., Reist, J. and Williams, W. 2012. State of the Ocean Report for the Beaufort Sea Large Ocean Management Area. Can. Manuscr. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2977: vi + 51 p.
- Paulic, J.E., Papst, M.H., and Cobb, D.G. 2009. Proceedings for the Identification of Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas in the Beaufort Sea Large Ocean Management Area. Can. Manuscr. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2865: ii + 46 p.
Links and databases
Monitoring and research
Co-management and land claims
Ice and satellite imagery
The full list of links, including partners in Alaska and the Gwich'in Settlement Area, is on fjmc.ca.
