“So we have to look for other sources,” said Harry Flaherty, president of Qikiqtaaluk Corporation, an Inuit-owned development company.
To that end, Flaherty’s team recently acquired a $2.6-million research vessel to search for new inshore fishing locations. Named Ludy Pudluk, after the territory’s longtime politician and climate change activist who died in 2019, the catamaran was built with funding from several federal government agencies, including the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and the Nunavut government.Qikiqtaaluk Corporation recently acquired a $2.
Research vessel Ludy Pudluk set sail for the first time last year from St. John’s, N.L., to map the ocean floor in Nunavut’s Qikiqtani region.Combining that cutting-edge technology with traditional knowledge, Ludy Pudluk set sail for the first time last year from St. John’s, N.L., to map the ocean floor in Nunavut’s Qikiqtani region, scouring the uncharted seabed in search of new inshore fishing locations.
An underwater camera discovered an abundance of marine life blanketing the seabed in Nunavut’s Qikiqtani region.“We were very pleasantly surprised,” said Jerry Ward, director of fisheries at Qikiqtaaluk Corp. “Even though we knew a lot of the species were there, we certainly didn’t visualise or have any idea as to the quantity.Story continues below advertisement
The coordinates will be shared with local communities, so they can be fished sustainably, in hopes of providing a new food source to meet the growing need. Ward says they’re collaborating with local hunters and trappers associations and training Inuit in the region to conduct the research themselves, hoping the findings will create new sources of food as well as new jobs.
Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)
Any more food austerity and ill be hunting out of season and so will many others. Its not like the MNRF has the manpower to stop anybody anymore.
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