Population
The global beluga population is made up of a number of subpopulations. The scientific committee of the International Whaling Commission recognises the following 29 subpopulations of these animals.
- Beluga subpopulations.
| 1. Cook Inlet 2. Bristol Bay 3. Eastern Bering Sea 4. Eastern Chukchi Sea 5. Beaufort Sea 6. Severnaya Zemlya 7. Western Greenland 8. Cumberland Sound | 9. Frobisher Bay 10. Ungava Bay 11. Foxe Basin 12. Western Hudson Bay 13. Hudson Bay (South) 14. James Bay 15. Eastern Hudson Bay 16. Saint Lawrence River | 17. Svalbard 18. Franz Josef Land 19. Gulf of Ob 20. Yenisei Gulf 21. Onega Bay 22. Mezen Bay 23. Dvina Bay 24. Laptev Sea | 25. Western Chukchi Sea - East Siberian Sea 26. Gulf of Anadyr 27. Shelikhov Gulf 28. Sakhalin - Amur River 29. Shantar Islands |
The estimation of population sizes is complicated because the boundaries for some of these groups overlap geographically or seasonally. The IUCN estimated the world beluga population in 2008 to be well in excess of 150,000.
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