Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The opening of polar bear hunting season is basically up to the community and the department through an agreement in areas where there is no polar bear management agreement, which includes Pelly Bay. Some time ago we were encouraging communities not to harvest polar bears before December to allow females to be in a den to have cubs in January. We allowed, in some cases, communities to have one or two extra tags in order for them to do that. I am not aware of the background in Pelly Bay, but if we do that for the community, then we will require the community to give up the number of tags which we gave them when we told them not to hunt before December 1. It is our recent experience that the bears which are hunted before December are, this year, worthless. Nobody wants to buy them. That would be up to the community if they really want to pursue harvesting of polar bears in November, they could do that with an agreement with our department. They would have to face a couple of problems, they would have to reduce their quota or they may have to face not selling the polar bear hides to markets. Thank you.
Titus Allooloo on Committee Motion 75-12(3): To Adopt Recommendation 21
In the Legislative Assembly on March 1st, 1993. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 75-12(3): To Adopt Recommendation 21
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 28th, 1993
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Titus Allooloo Amittuq
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