Re: NANFA-- Farthest & Highest

Stan Perkins (stanperkins_at_academicplanet.com)
Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:46:49 -0600

I wonder just how much of the freshwater on Ellesmere stays unfrozen during
the winter? Could these fish migrate since they can be found in salt water?
Interesting what our conversations turn up.

Stan Perkins
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Davis" <unclescott_at_prodigy.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Farthest & Highest

> Thank you Lee. That takes care of the background question as to whether
they
> preyed upon other fishes - which would also northerly too.
>
> The article also mentions plankton and the fact that char were dined on by
> seals, whales and sharks, so they must also enter salt water. Page &
Burr's
> maps indicate them off of island coasts which might even be further north
> than 82 degrees.
>
> What is confusing to some perusing the maps of The Peterson Field Guide to
> Freshwater Fishes is that the distribution maps for nine spine
sticklebacks
> and burbot paint in all of those islands too.
>
> According to a vintage Goode's World Atlas, that would have brought all of
> them right up to the edge of the permanant polar ice pack on the north
shore
> of Ellesmere Island and Greenland if they entered far into salt water.
>
> All the best!
>
> Scott
>
> > << What do the char eat? :)
> > >>
> > Shrimp, aquatic insects and crawfish, according to the following
> >
> > http://allsands.com/Science/Animals/arcticcharfish_tnu_gn.htm
> >
> > Lee Harper

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