NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Dahlke, Lothar
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: Three crews of two people each will be stationed at the commercial fishing camps to obtain biological and catch effort data from the fisherman. A supervisor will oversee the project in the field and set some experimental nets in the vicinity of the commercial nets at one of the camps. A minimum of 200 whitefish samples will be obtained from the fishermen's catch....

Principal Investigator: Chiperzak, Doug
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The potential of marine fisheries stocks in the Beaufort Sea to support commercial fisheries is unknown at present. I propose to develop the local expertise to conduct offshore winter fisheries for greenland halibut (turbot) using long-line techniques, and to assess the potential of any stocks present to support a commercial fishery. Data will be collected to assess stock characteristics pertine...

Principal Investigator: Cosens, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher and team will apply new tag technology and DNA analysis to a study of site tenacity and industrial disturbance of bowhead whales. They will test the feasibility of using sonic tags to track bowheads underwater and will be testing sampling methods for collecting skin from live whales for DNA analysis....

Principal Investigator: Reid, David E.
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: As part of a feasibility study of a deep water marine base at Atkinson Point a vegetation survey of the area will be conducted....

Principal Investigator: Wilkinson, Paul
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To determine the suitability of an area for possible National Park....