Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling in Greenland: The Case of Qeqertarsuaq Municipality in West Greenland

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Caulfield, Richard A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1993
• Subjects: Anti-harvesting; Beluga whales; Bowhead whales; Co-management; Economic conditions; International Whaling Commission; Inuit; Minke whales; Public opinion; Public participation; Subsistence; Sustainable economic development; Whaling; Wildlife management; Greenland; Baleine; Baleinière; la Baleine; Qeqertarsuaq; Rorqual; Arctic; Balaena mysticetus; Balaenoptera acutorostrata; Balaenoptera physalus; baleine boréale; Beluga; Beluga*; bowhead whale; Fin whale; greenlander*; greenlandic; Groenland; groenlandais; groenlandaise; inuit; minke whale; North Atlantic; petit rorqual
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64391

Policy debates in the International Whaling Commission (IWC) about aboriginal subsistence whaling focus on the changing significance of whaling in the mixed economies of contemporary Inuit communities. In Greenland, Inuit hunters have taken whales for over 4000 years as part of a multispecies patter...