A case study of polar bear co-management in the eastern Canadian arctic

• Main Author: Davis, Christy Ann
• Other Authors: Ramsay, Malcom, Barr, William, Aitken, Alec E.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 1999
• Subjects: QWB; Aboriginal ways; 1985 Northeast Baffin MOU negotiations; wildlife behaviour modification strategies; Inuit > Nunavut; NWMB; Arctic; Baffin Island; Clyde River; Nunavut; Baffin; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-03112008-133019

The purpose of this thesis is to document and analyse the development of the 1985 Clyde River - Broughton Island Memorandum of Understanding on Polar Bears. Based on a population estimate of 400 to 600 polar bears on Northeast Baffin Island, the quotas for Clyde River were reduced from 45 to 15, and...