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Beverly Caribou
Harvest Levels
The
Beverly and Qamanirjuaq caribou herds are jointly managed under the
Beverly-Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board and the information available
about harvest levels is grouped together for the two herds.
Residents
of the NWT, Nunavut, Saskatchewan and Manitoba harvest from the Beverly
and Qaminurjuaq herds.
There are more than 13,500 people living on or near the ranges of
these two herds, of which at least 11,000 people are considered
traditional users. Approximately 18,500 caribou are taken annually from
these two herds for subsistence use, with an approximate replacement value
of $12,000,000.
In addition to the caribou harvested for subsistence use, the
Beverly and Qamanirjuaq herds also support small harvests by
non-aboriginal residents, non-resident hunters and commercial operators.
In the NWT, the non-aboriginal resident and non-resident harvest is
extremely small as the Beverly herd seldom travels close to NWT
communities.
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