Trends in high arctic muskox (Ovibos moschatus) harvest, 1990-2015
Harvest reporting has been in place for High Arctic muskoxen in Nunavut, Canada, since 1990-91. The communities of Resolute, Grise Fiord, and Arctic Bay harvest muskoxen in the region. Overall, muskox harvest has declined in Resolute and Grise Fiord since the 1990s. The recovery of Peary caribou pop...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:7e1142523c2b4ccca77f64e26abac615 2023-05-15T14:29:28+02:00 Trends in high arctic muskox (Ovibos moschatus) harvest, 1990-2015 Morgan Anderson 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.7557/2.37.1.4182 https://doaj.org/article/7e1142523c2b4ccca77f64e26abac615 EN eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/4182 https://doaj.org/toc/1890-6729 doi:10.7557/2.37.1.4182 1890-6729 https://doaj.org/article/7e1142523c2b4ccca77f64e26abac615 Rangifer, Vol 37, Iss 1 (2017) muskox Ovibos moschatus harvest Nunavut Animal culture SF1-1100 article 2017 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.7557/2.37.1.4182 2022-12-30T22:29:00Z Harvest reporting has been in place for High Arctic muskoxen in Nunavut, Canada, since 1990-91. The communities of Resolute, Grise Fiord, and Arctic Bay harvest muskoxen in the region. Overall, muskox harvest has declined in Resolute and Grise Fiord since the 1990s. The recovery of Peary caribou populations on the Bathurst Island Complex, which provides an alternate preferred source of country food, may be a factor behind Resolute’s decreased muskox harvest. The proportion of harvest for domestic use has also declined relative to sport hunts, which have remained relatively constant since the 1990s. We compared muskox harvest from tag records and reported harvest, i.e., the voluntary surveys to the Nunavut Wildlife Harvest Study for muskoxen. It is clear that voluntarily reported harvest underestimates actual harvest, but not consistently enough to predict the actual harvest. Muskox populations are at historic high levels on Bathurst Island, southern Ellesmere Island, and Devon Island and could support more harvest than is currently taken. Changes to Total Allowable Harvests and management unit boundaries in 2015, combined with a decline in the availability of Baffin Island caribou as country food, may result in increased harvest pressure on muskoxen in the High Arctic. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic bay Arctic Baffin Island Baffin Bathurst Island caribou Devon Island Ellesmere Island Grise Fiord muskox Nunavut ovibos moschatus Rangifer Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Nunavut Baffin Island Ellesmere Island Canada Devon Island ENVELOPE(-88.000,-88.000,75.252,75.252) Peary ENVELOPE(-63.867,-63.867,-65.250,-65.250) Bathurst Island ENVELOPE(-100.002,-100.002,75.752,75.752) Arctic Bay ENVELOPE(-85.116,-85.116,73.018,73.018) Grise Fiord ENVELOPE(-82.895,-82.895,76.418,76.418) Rangifer 37 1 47 58 |
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Harvest reporting has been in place for High Arctic muskoxen in Nunavut, Canada, since 1990-91. The communities of Resolute, Grise Fiord, and Arctic Bay harvest muskoxen in the region. Overall, muskox harvest has declined in Resolute and Grise Fiord since the 1990s. The recovery of Peary caribou populations on the Bathurst Island Complex, which provides an alternate preferred source of country food, may be a factor behind Resolute’s decreased muskox harvest. The proportion of harvest for domestic use has also declined relative to sport hunts, which have remained relatively constant since the 1990s. We compared muskox harvest from tag records and reported harvest, i.e., the voluntary surveys to the Nunavut Wildlife Harvest Study for muskoxen. It is clear that voluntarily reported harvest underestimates actual harvest, but not consistently enough to predict the actual harvest. Muskox populations are at historic high levels on Bathurst Island, southern Ellesmere Island, and Devon Island and could support more harvest than is currently taken. Changes to Total Allowable Harvests and management unit boundaries in 2015, combined with a decline in the availability of Baffin Island caribou as country food, may result in increased harvest pressure on muskoxen in the High Arctic. |
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Trends in high arctic muskox (Ovibos moschatus) harvest, 1990-2015 |
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