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Whale Watching, Discovery Travel Adventures Insight guide. ISBN 1-56331-836-9. The Whale Watcher's Guide: Whale-watching Trips in North America, Patricia Corrigan, ISBN 1-55971-683-5. Whales and Whale Watching in Iceland, Mark Carwardine, ISBN 9979-51-129-X. On the Trail of the Whale, Mark Carwardine, ISBN 1-899074-00-7
Many Beluga whales breed in the cold waters at its mouth, making Tadoussac a popular site for whale watching and sea kayaking; Greenland sharks also frequent the depths of the river. The area of the confluence of the Saguenay and Saint Lawrence is protected by the Saguenay–St. Lawrence Marine Park , one of Canada's national parks .
On April 6, 1990, the governments of Quebec and Canada signed an agreement to create the Saguenay–St. Lawrence Marine Park. [5] The management plan was originally drafted in 1995, and the park was officially created in 1998. [5] This was the first time that Quebec and Canada worked together to create a marine protected area (MPA).
The modern village of Tadoussac lies close to the site of the original settlement at the mouth of the Saguenay River. It is known as a tourist destination because of the rugged beauty of the Saguenay fjord and its facilities for whale watching. The authority for the Port of Tadoussac was transferred in April 2012 to the Municipality of Tadoussac.
Whaling in Canada encompasses both aboriginal and commercial whaling, and has existed on all three Canadian oceans, Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic.The indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast have whaling traditions dating back millennia, and the hunting of cetaceans continues by Inuit (mostly beluga and narwhal, but also the subsistence hunting of the bowhead whale).
It is the west terminus of the Baie-Ste-Catherine / Tadoussac ferry, which offers free and frequent service across the Saguenay River to Tadoussac. The ferry is part of Quebec Route 138 which is the main land link to Sept-Îles along the Côte-Nord. Baie-Sainte-Catherine is a gateway to the Saguenay–St. Lawrence Marine Park and to the ...
Common minke whale breaching in the St. Lawrence River near Tadoussac, Quebec Minke whale in the Ross Sea Due to their relative abundance, minke whales are often the focus of whale-watching cruises setting sail from, for instance, the Isle of Mull in Scotland, County Cork in Ireland, and Húsavík in Iceland, and tours taken on the east coast ...
Passage of couriers from Transat Quebec Saint-Malo, [16] Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans 2000 Running for about 195 km, the middle estuary of the St. Lawrence extends, according to the authors, from the eastern tip of Île d'Orléans [ 17 ] or Saint-Jean-Port-Joli , to the mouth of the Saguenay River .