ARCTIC Thick-billed Murre Hunting in West Greenland, 1988-89

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1991
• Subjects: Key words; thick-billed murre; Uria; Arctic; Greenland; inuit; Nanortalik; Upernavik; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.542.8102; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic45-2-167.pdf

ABSTRACT. Thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia) hunting by Inuit of West Greenland was surveyed during the winter and spring of 1988/89. Kill toll levels and age structure of the kill were determined for districts between Upernavik (73”N) and Nanortalik (WON). Based on counts of the numbers of birds available for purchase at markets and on information from processing companies, an estimated I O 0 OOO murres were killed for commercial trading purposes in 1988/89. Non-commercial hunting is harder to assess, but estimates based on the number of licences issued and the mean number of murres killed per day by non-commercial hunters indicate that between 190 O00 and 293 O00 murres are killed per annum. Thus the total kill toll is