Fishing's hot in Texas » Sep 23, 2009
Continuing south, trout action doesn't become a factor again until you reach Port Mansfield and Baffin Bay, both of which produced some quality fish this past week on topwaters and jigs. As did the back bays around Port Isabel, which also doled out their usual ration of snook. (ESPN -- Outdoors)
Crew of Ocean Watch Safely Navigates the Northwest Passage - East Coast Leg of Around the Americas Expedition Begins With First Port Stop in St. John's, Newfoundland Sep 9, 2009
As the crew compared notes about the last few days of the expedition and discussed things to come, Schrader shares that "the interesting part of this was how we'd all avoided talking about what might happen after Bellot Strait or Peel Sound because it was by no means certain that we'd make it out of either and into Lancaster Sound and Baffin Bay - this year.". While Ocean Watch made its way toward Bellot Strait she encountered very heavy ice that was unpredicted as well as most of the surface... (PR Newswire)
Polar Bear Subpopulations in Decline Jul 7, 2009
A polar bear swims in Baffin Bay above the Arctic Circle in this July 2008 file photo ... While the group affirmed its support for the rights of aboriginal people to hunt polar bears in habitats that are stable, it said that bear populations in Baffin Bay (bordered by Greenland and Canada) and the Chukchi Sea (between the U.S. and Russia) may be suffering from a combination of overharvesting/illegal hunting and changes in habitat, such as loss of sea ice brought about by global warming. (CBS News)
Sports Beat: Sunny daze Jul 2, 2009
This isn t the Yukon or Baffin Bay. What happen to the lazy days of July or the dog days of August. (Weymouth News, MA)
Pocket eying Colorado market Jun 22, 2009
It didn t cost that much to add a cell tower and provide coverage on Baffin Bay, says Jim Mickey, chief operations officer for Pocket. But that was important to the recreational hunters and fishers. (San Antonio Business Journal, TX)
Polar bears' greatest peril: Global warming Mar 20, 2009
Mr. Ugarte said scientists disagree over why people in the settlements around Baffin Bay and elsewhere have reported an increase in polar bear sightings in recent years. One explanation may be that the local bear population is robust. (International Herald Tribune)
'Arctic unicorns' in icy display Feb 11, 2009
Every year, thousands of narwhal use these narrow fissures to travel thousands of kilometres, from the south of Baffin Bay to the high Arctic fjords ... " Thanks to their elusive nature, narwhal can prove difficult to study and there is still much to learn about these Arctic mammals. Mads Peter Heide-Jorgensen, from the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, said the purpose of the creatures' summer migration remained a mystery. He explained: "The interesting thing is that these creatures... (BBC News)
