N.W.T. board considering whether Tch should be allowed to increase caribou harvest [Video]

The Wek’èezhìı Renewable Resources Board is being asked to decide whether people in the Tłı̨chǫ region should be able to hunt more Bluenose-East caribou. 

In 2019 the total allowable harvest for that herd in the Tłı̨chǫ region was 193 caribou, but a proposed new co-management plan asks the board to increase that number to 395. 

The proposed plan was put together by the territorial and Tłı̨chǫ governments.  

Jody Pellissey, the board’s executive director, said there’s been a “significant increase” in the herd since 2023. 

“In 2022, we were still seeing declines in the herd and, or you know, we weren’t really seeing a recovery, which is ultimately what we’re hoping to do with the management scheme that we’re putting in place,” Pellissey said. 

In March, the Kugluktuk Hunters and Trappers Organization made a recommendation to the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board to increase the total allowable harvest of Bluenose-East caribou from …