The efforts occurring in the spring and fall when the fish zooplankton/ Canadian Archipelago area of the Arctic Ocean (north were migrating back to their spawning and overwin- phytoplankton of the mainland to the 200–nautical mile Exclusive tering grounds in large numbers. [...] The decrease in are a very important food for many of the larger marine animals in sea ice also brings increased interest in large-scale the Arctic Ocean. [...] In addition, the dense number of points in Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea ref lect the reporting of commercial-fishery harvests and associated bycatch. [...] In the Canadian Arctic, Pacific Herring are found in the Queen Maud Gulf and the Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf, Liverpool and Wood Bays, and along the south shores of Dolphin and Union Strait at the border of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. [...] Thus herring biomass may increase as a result of climate geographic area and the presence of sea ice throughout much of the change effects in the Arctic Ocean.
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