What we heard : community meetings for beluga and bowhead tagging and aerial survey programs planned for 2019 in the Inuvialuit settlement region / Shannon MacPhee, Billy Adams, John Craighead George,...: Fs97-4/3294E-PDF

"Three large-scale marine mammal science programs were proposed to take place in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in July and August 2019. These included Canadian-led beluga tagging and aerial survey programs to update the abundance estimate for the Eastern Beaufort Sea beluga population, and a US-led aerial survey to estimate the abundance of the Bering Chukchi-Beaufort Seas bowhead population. In November 2018, Fisheries and Oceans Canada organized public meetings in all six communities in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region to (1) share preliminary results from the 2018 beluga tagging program and discuss plans for beluga tagging in 2019; (2) share proposed plans and survey designs for beluga and bowhead aerial surveys in July and August 2019, respectively; and (3) seek community input into the design of all three science programs. This report describes meeting planning and logistics, highlights key information shared during the science presentations, and summarizes the feedback received by project proponents from Inuvialuit participants who attended each community meeting. Information shared by meeting participants was used to refine study designs and was one way that Inuvialuit Knowledge and perspectives guided the research programs"--Abstract, page vii.

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