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4 Point Hope residents charged in Alaska walrus kills

20 September 2016 Jerzy Shedlock, Alaska Dispatch 0 Comments Arctic, courts, harvesting, hunting, indigenous, law, subsistence

Four Point Hope residents are facing federal charges alleging they shot and killed at least six walruses for their ivory tusks

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A close up shot of a blue-green algae bloom. Location not identified. (iStock)

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Algae-related toxins found in Arctic sea mammals

15 February 201615 February 2016 Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Bering Sea, climate, harvesting, hunting, nature, oceans, research, Science

Toxins produced by harmful algal blooms are showing up in Alaska marine mammals as far north as the Arctic

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Hay River fishers fined $4K for illegal harvesting

24 February 20152 March 2015 CBC News 0 Comments fishing, harvesting, Northwest Territories

First time a fisher has had licence suspended in N.W.T.: DFO Two commercial fishers have been convicted by the N.W.T.

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Enough M’Clintock Channel polar bears to increase hunting quota?

11 September 201412 September 2014 Caroline Arbour 0 Comments conservation, harvesting, hunting, M'Clintock Channel, Nunavut, polar bears

The first of a three-part polar bear count in Nunavut’s Kitikmeot region has wrapped up, but it will be impossible

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