AR-News: (Modern caribou hunt a small industryCanada)

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Annual killing of 3,000 animals provides jobs, food
 
Nathan VanderKlippe
CanWest News Service


Sunday, February 29, 2004

Inuit hunter Inuapik Ell sets off in search of caribou.
 
CREDIT: Nathan VanderKlippe, CanWest News Service
 

Jean Paliak slices a few final trims from caribou carcasses hanging out to 
freeze on the tundra near the Nunavut community of Coral Harbour.
 
CREDIT: Nathan VanderKlippe, CanWest News Service
 


 

 


 

 


  

CORAL HARBOUR, NUNAVUT - At a tundra camp on an island in Nunavut, the 
slaughter of thousands of caribou is creating jobs and helping preserve an animal 
vital to the Inuit way of life.
It's part of an annual harvest that is now in its 10th year. In less than a 
month, 3,000 of the animals will be shot and butchered, their meat eventually 
packaged and shipped to markets around the world.
Braving vicious cold, Inuit hunters with cheeks blackened by frostbite bounce 
on snowmobiles across snowdrifts as hard as cement. They will shoot about 160 
caribou a day until the harvest ends in mid-March. 
The caribou are scattered across the wind-scoured hills. 
Each hour hunters pull kamotiqs, sleds loaded with dozens of fresh kills, to 
the tundra abattoir.










full story:

http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/story.asp?id=B1146DF5-A2D3-4D83
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