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Canadians catch about 600 narwhals per year.[1] They catch 100 belugas per year in the Beaufort Sea[2] [3] and 300 in northern Quebec.[4] The annual catch in these areas varies between 300 and 400 belugas per year. Numbers are not available for Nunavut since 2003, when the Arviat area, with about half Nunavut's hunters, caught 200-300 belugas, though the authors say hunters resist giving complete numbers.[5] Harvested meat is sold through shops and supermarkets in northern communities where whale meat is a component of the traditional diet.[6] The Whale and Dolphin Conservation says[when?]:
- "Canada has pursued a policy of marine mammal management which appears to be more to do with political expediency rather than conservation."
Canada left the IWC in 1982, and the only IWC-regulated species currently harvested by the Canadian Inuit is the bowhead whale.[7] As of 2004, the limit on bowhead whale hunting allows for the hunt of one whale every two years from the Hudson Bay-Foxe Basin population, and one whale every 13 years from the Baffin Bay-Davis Strait population.[8] This is roughly one-fiftieth of the bowhead whale harvest limits in Alaska (see below).
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Traditional whaling practices of Canada’s Pacific Northwest Indigenous peoples are grounded in spirituality, culture, economics, and subsistence. Makah, Nuu-Chah-Nulth and other coastal peoples relied on the whale hunt for generations. Pre-contact whaling traditions, fed numerous communities without causing a decline in whale populations. [9]
- ^ Witting, Lars (2017-04-10). "Meta population modelling of narwhals in East Canada and West Greenland - 2017". bioRxiv: 059691. doi:10.1101/059691. S2CID 89062294.
- ^ Muto, M.M., V. T. Helker, R. P. Angliss, B. A. Allen, P. L. Boveng, J.M. Breiwick, M. F. Cameron, P. J. Clapham, S. P. Dahle, M. E. Dahlheim, B. S. Fadely, M.C. Ferguson, L. W. Fritz, R. C. Hobbs, Y. V. Ivashchenko, A. S. Kennedy, J.M. London, S. A. Mizroch, R. R. Ream, E. L. Richmond, K. E. W. Shelden, R. G. Towell, P. R. Wade, J. M. Waite, and A. N. Zerbini (2017). "Alaska Marine Mammal Stock Assessments, 2017 (draft)". Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA. Retrieved 2018-04-08.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Fisheries, NOAA (2018-01-31). "Draft Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports, NOAA Fisheries". www.fisheries.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2018-04-08.
- ^ Rogers, Sarah (2016-08-22). "Nunatsiaq News 2016-08-22: NEWS: Nunavik's beluga season closes early". Nunatsiaq News. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
- ^ SULUK, THOMAS K., and SHERRIE L. BLAKNEY (2008). "Land Claims and Resistance to the Management of Harvester Activities in Nunavut" (PDF). Arctic. 61: 62–70 – via University of Calgary.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Krupnik, Igor (1993). "Prehistoric Eskimo Whaling in the Arctic: Slaughter of Calves or Fortuitous Ecology?". Arctic Anthropology. 30 (1): 1–12. JSTOR 40316325.
- ^ Fox, Mike (2002-05-24). "The Inuit case for whaling". BBC News.
- ^ "Study approves limited bowhead whale hunt". Nunatsiaq News. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2013-08-07.
- ^ Coté, Charlotte (2010). Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-Chah-Nulth Traditions. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 42. ISBN 9780295990460.