Dressed Weight/Whole (Round Weight) Relationships for Halokvik River Arctic Char (Cambridge Bay Region, NU)

Commercial and exploratory fisheries for Arctic Char, Salvelinus alpinus, provide significant economic opportunities for Nunavummiut in several Nunavut communities. Having an accurate understanding of the weight of the Arctic Char that are harvested is important for tracking harvest and for understanding how biological parameters may be changing over time as a result of exploitation and/or climactic and environmental changes. Unfortunately, most fish enter the processing plants as dressed (gills and viscera removed) and therefore conversion factors have to be applied to reconcile whole (round) weight from dressed weight. Here, we provide an updated conversion factor based on linear regression for Arctic Char from the Halokvik River (locally known as 30 Mile) near the community of Cambridge Bay. This conversion factor can be used moving forward as the Halokvik River continues to be commercially harvested.

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Title (French) Relations entre le poids apprêté et le poids entier (poids brut) pour l’omble chevalier de la rivière Halokvik (région de Cambridge Bay au Nunavut)
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Contact Person {"en": "Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada", "fr": "Gouvernement du Canada; Pêches et Océans Canada"}
Contact Email les.n.harris@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Data Dictionary EPSG:4326,http://www.epsg-registry.org,
Open Canada Date Published 2020-07-28 00:00:00
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Open Canada Subject ["nature_and_environment", "science_and_technology"]
Open Canada Keywords {"en": ["Fish", "Aquatic Sciences", "Salvelinus alpinus", "Arctic", "Fisheries", "Fisheries resources", "Arctic Ocean"], "fr": ["poissons", "sciences aquatiques", "Salvelinus alpinus", "Arctique", "Pêcheries", "Ressources halieutiques", "Océan Arctique"]}
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