Photo: Toward a commercial fishery in Gjoa Haven?

Stephan Schott, second from left, leaning on table, meets with members of the Gjoa Haven Hunters and Trappers Organization at a November board meeting at the outset of a four-year, $5.6 million research project which will examine fish populations, subsistence hunting and the possibility of a local, commercial fishery in that Kitikmeot community. Schott, an economist with a specialty in resource management, is teaming up with three biologists from Queen’s University and hunters, fishers and other knowledge-holders in Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Cambridge Bay to assess local fish stocks and see whether a commercial fishery is desirable and sustainable in Gjoa Haven. From left: Jimmy Qirqqut, Stephan Schott, James Qitsualik, David Siksik and, standing at back, Kenneth Puqinaq. Read more later on Nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO BY PETER VAN COEVERDEN DE GROOT)