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Harvest studies in the Inuvialuit settlement region, Northwest Territories, Canada, 1999 and 2001-2003

In 1999, the Hunters and Trappers Committees in Aklavik, Holman, Inuvik, Paulatuk and Tuktoyaktuk selected local interviewers to collect information on the location and number of fish harvested by Inuvialuit in these communities. The Inuvik harvest study used a mailed survey form; the rest of the communities used recall surveys carried out once per month on a house-to-house basis or contacted harvesters while fishing. In 2001, Holman and Sachs Harbour used a monthly recall survey for data collection, but owing to a late start, Paulatuk used a single house-to-house recall survey late in the year. In 2002 and 2003, the Holman, Paulatuk and Sachs Harbour harvest studies collected data using a house-to-house, monthly survey. The 2002-2003 study also gathered information on seal harvests as the harvest of those species had not been documented since 2000. A short study that recorded the Arctic cisco (Coregonus autumnalis) harvest took place in Tuktoyaktuk in 2003. Harvest data was collected during a house-to-house survey and contact with fishers while harvesting. This report summarizes the reported harvests and methods of data collection used in all participating communities during 1999 and 2001-2003 and makes recommendations as to how, when and who should implement future harvest studies.

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