GN closes Baffin Island caribou harvest
Total allowable limit reached; outstanding tags should be handed in
This year’s Baffin Island caribou harvest is closed effective immediately, the Department of Environment has announced. (File photo)
The Baffin Island caribou harvest for 2023-24 season is closed.
Nunavut’s Environment Department made the announcement Monday.
The closure is effective immediately because the total allowable harvest of 400 caribou has been reached.
Any remaining tags are void and should be returned to a local wildlife office or hunters and trappers organization, the department said.
The seasonal limit was established by the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board to support recovery of the Baffin Island caribou population.
Imposing the limit provides harvesting opportunities for future generations, the department said.
Bootleg prices on Kivalliq Caribou just went up. Yee-HAW!!!!
More for beer and wine store
Must be some in Baffin Island suddenly “wanting to be buddies with those a**holes in Kivalliq. Guaranteed.”😂
My email is full of request already
Heard people shipping out of Arviat and Bake Lake and other Kivalliq communities are now having to pay commercial freight rates when they ship out country food to Baffin.
Some HTO’s are also requesting their members to stop selling tuktu in the spring time when the females are migrating to their calving grounds.
This tuktu hunting in the Kivalliq needs to be better managed that is for sure so that there are animals around when our grand kids grow up.
This should be considered for the Kivalliq Qamanirjuaq Caribou Herd (seasonal limit on Meat Plant sales and also Sales to Baffin) NWMB really needs to discuss this with all Kivalliq communities and HTO’s, TAH for the purpose of sales should be put on a tag system as a means of better management, where is Caribou Management board on this? in a few years we could see Kivalliq ending up like Baffin on a limited TAH for each year if this is not better managed.
Might not be many caribou on Baffin… but looks like trees are increasing on Baffin. haha
Effective immediately, business open for Mr. rollup 🙂
Were going to save you baffin island if KIA gets calmair cargo to lower the rates back to the country food program we need more help from everyone that orders from Arviat send emails to KIA.
Abusing the country food rate for commercial use and sale is not acceptable. It was implemented so that family members can share country food with their family and not for profit.
If you are shipping country food for personal gain/profit, you should be required to pay commercial freight rates. End of Story.
Explain to everyone, including the airline why the airline’s operation should subsidize your choice of gainful employment?
Maybe the Islanders can supplement their protien intake from eating more seal meat?
KIVALLIQ, your next to be on a quota,harvesting too many, but you can claim compensation from the mine, it’s their fault, nobody listening here, DENIAL
Last I heard, only baffin Island people blame the mines and shipping routes for animal loss. Only baffin Island seeking compensation for the loss of nirijutit through the mines. Isumatv is working hard to make mines look bad. When in reality, isumatv promotes hunting. Catching so many seals, walruses. Even documenting a bowhead whale hunt.
What’s next for baffin Island on quotas list? Walrus? Seal? Beluga? I can just hear them saying, “it’s the shipping routes fault that we have no seals or walruses” 🤣
The amount of caribou I see every year in the kivalliq is way more perfect then the baffin island end of story.
The majestic herd is coming soon
Taking orders
Come on baffin u guys are paying a high price for shipping send in your complaint letter to calmair and KIA as we hear KIA is doing this to Arviat only.
How is that possible without a Land Use Plan that Baffin caribou are recovering…
Does one of the former Premier not trust co-management wildlife regimes describes in the Nunavut Agreement. He may have been involved negotiating it but yet not trust its people to manage caribou. Oh I forgot I don’t think he own any hunting equipment so the WWF propaganda it is…
A good hunter knows when to hunt and when not to hunt, fish and when not to fish. And the hunter knows which animals are in season.