Greenland’s Home Rule government says it won’t finance “anarchy”

KNAPP, the local hunters and fishermen’s association in Nuuk, won’t follow a new law that sets limits on the bird hunting season in Greenland.

The regulation, which came into effect Jan. 1, extends the hunting ban on auks and eider ducks by one month. The new, shorter hunting season is intended to help the birds’ depleted numbers to recover.

But apparently this measure doesn’t suit the hunters and fishermen in Nuuk who have said they intend to hunt as they have always done.

“I think people ought to think really carefully before they make statements such as these. If the hunters and fishermen of Nuuk want to act this way, they better start looking other places for subsidies. The Home Rule refuses to finance anarchy,” said Edward Geisler, the minister for environment on Greenland’s KNR national radio network.

Geisler said hunters and fishermen receive subsidies to help them market to sell their products.

“If they wish to have a continued relationship with the Home Rule Government, they must therefore stick to the rules which have been laid down in the legislation,” Geisler said.