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Nunavik’s first muskox hunt wraps up

Eight tags issued, as population hits 2,000

JANE GEORGE

George Berthe, Makivik Corp.’s corporate secretary and a resident of Kuujjuaq, was one of eight Nunavimmiut to participate in Nunavik’s first ever muskox harvest. (PHOTO COURTESY OF G. BERTHE)

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A 2004 Quebec government survey found the Nunavik’s muskox herd is growing due to excellent forage conditions in the region.

In fact, the herd’s numbers have multiplied substantially since 1967 when 15 young muskox were transported from Ellesmere Island to an experimental farm at Old Chimo, the original site of Kuujjuaq located across the Koksoak River.

By 1983, when the farm’s operations ceased, 52 muskox were let loose on the land.

Muskox are now a common sight along the Ungava Bay.

Quebec decided to allow a “controlled hunt” of the region’s muskox population in 2006, following consultations with Makivik Corporation, Quebec, Kuujjuaq, Tasiujaq as well as those two communities’ landholding corporations and local hunters and trappers associations.

The hunt, now on a five-year test basis, will be carried out in designated areas around Kuujjuaq and Tasijuaq.

Initially a subsistence hunt only, the hunt may be expanded later so some sports hunters can participate.

This year, there were eight tags distributed randomly in a draw among interested beneficiaries 18 and older in Kuujjuaq and Tasijuaq.

Only adult male muskox over three years of age were harvested in the region between Kuujjuaq and Tasiujaq.

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