We have committed and are working with the Tlicho and we are prepared to work with the Yellowknives to make sure that they have access to subsistence hunting. We have not said you can’t hunt caribou. We have not said that we are taking away that right to hunt. What we are saying in this very broad area is that there is a herd in the middle, the Bathurst herd, which its numbers have diminished so dramatically that they cannot stand harvesting or they will cease to exist. There are other opportunities. We are working with communities to say we can continue to have subsistence harvest in those areas while still doing what everybody wants, which is protect the future of the herd. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 199-16(4): Caribou Management Measures
In the Legislative Assembly on January 28th, 2010. See this statement in context.
Question 199-16(4): Caribou Management Measures
Oral Questions
January 27th, 2010
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