Ethics approval and consent to participate
We declare that our experiments were performed in the respect of ethical
rules. This protocol was approved by Department of Fisheries and Ocean
Canada, Freshwater Institute Animal Care Committee Science Laboratories.
Funding
Funds are from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Northern Development
Canada Northwest Territories Cumulative Impacts Monitoring Program
grants, Polar Continental Shelf Program, Sahtu Renewable Resource Board,
and the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. Funding bodies had no role in
the study design, in the collection, analysis and interpretation of
data, in writing the manuscript or the decision to submit the paper for
publication.