Repulse Bay gets bowhead hunt

The Wildlife Policy Advisory Committee announced that Repulse Bay will host this year’s bowheard whale harvest.

“They captured the true spirit of traditional Inuit harvests,” Raymond Ningeocheak said of the Repulse Bay Hunters and Trappers Association’s application for the hunt. Ningeocheak is Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.’s second vice-president and chair of the committee that reviewed applications from six different communities.

Repulse Bay last hosted the bowhead hunt in 1996.