I am not interested in the Minister starting promotion of commercial hunts and things like that. I am just talking about quota too. I think what we are looking at here is the department made a scientific mistake in the past by holding back so long in starting to harvest the animals over there, to the point where the growth rate was so fast. After that certain point, by the time they introduced the unlimited quota for subsistence hunting, the community was not big enough to sustain that or keep that population under control. That is why I think it is extremely important that the department tell the NWT Development Corporation, Japan or other people. Some department should do something in stating that we have a very good and healthy caribou herd and we need to do something about it.
James Arvaluk on Tabled Document 34-12(5): Tradition And Change, A Strategy For Renewable Resource Development In The Nwt, February 1994
In the Legislative Assembly on March 28th, 1994. See this statement in context.
Tabled Document 34-12(5): Tradition And Change, A Strategy For Renewable Resource Development In The Nwt, February 1994
Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 27th, 1994
Page 890
James Arvaluk Aivilik
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