It may seem surprising, but up until a few months ago, the diet of the St. Lawrence beluga was not well known. \u201cMost of what we know about the beluga\u2019s diet in the St. Lawrence Estuary comes from stomach contents collected 80 years ago, mainly from a hunting site that is no longer used by belugas,\u201d points out Fisheries and Oceans Canada researcher V\u00e9ronique Lesage in a scientific study published in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It may seem surprising, but up until a few months ago, the diet of the St. Lawrence beluga was not well known. \u201cMost of what we know about the beluga\u2019s diet in the St. Lawrence Estuary comes from stomach contents collected 80 years ago, mainly from a hunting site that is no longer used by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":52184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,29],"tags":[48,410,1655,411,475,1658,1657,1656],"class_list":["post-52209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-whale-qa","tag-alimentation-en","tag-beluga-du-saint-laurent-en","tag-beluga-whale","tag-belugas-en","tag-feeding","tag-fishes","tag-food","tag-st-lawrence-beluga"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n