The Foxe Basin polar bear subpopulation is one of Nunavut’s largest polar bear subpopulations – it spans a geographical area of about 1.1 million km2. It is a seasonally ice-free subpopulation with bears aggregating on the coast during the summer months. There is no recent data for Foxe Basin, and there is therefore a need to reassess the subpopulation. The most recent population estimate is of 2,585 polar bears, derived from surveys conducted in 2009 and 2010. Environmental changes and resulting changes in population abundance or distribution in surrounding areas (Western Hudson Bay and Southern Hudson Bay) creates further need for an updated population abundance estimate of the Foxe Basin subpopulation. To effectively understand the dynamics within the Hudson Bay complex between subpopulations, we aim to investigate movements between surrounding subpopulation boundaries. Insight into movements between subpopulations will help inform the management of bears within the Foxe Basin subpopulation, as well as in neighbouring subpopulations. We propose to start a new abundance and movement study for Foxe Basin in 2024. This will fulfill mandated wildlife monitoring objectives and provide management advice to the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board and provide much needed abundance information to a data deficit subpopulation. The proposed methods include using distance sampling via aerial survey to estimate the Foxe Basin polar bear subpopulation abundance and using biopsy darting and community-led hair snare stations to investigate movements at subpopulation boundaries. The initiation of the population abundance survey and biopsy darting are proposed for August 2024, with hair snare stations proposed to start summer 2024. In consort with the aerial survey, we propose to employ statistical mark recovery models to investigate Foxe Basin bear survival and movements among the surrounding subpopulations by comparing the genetic information from the proposed biopsy and hair snagging work to data collected from harvest sampling and previous capture-mark recapture studies.