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GNWT Report to Annual Harvest Meeting Feb 2012

GNWT Report to Annual Harvest Meeting Feb 2012. NWT Resident Harvest. Current Resident Regulations: - Require hunting licence - can purchase 2 bull only tags per year Season 15 Aug to 30 April PCH only area in NWT where residents can harvest caribou Data based on:

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GNWT Report to Annual Harvest Meeting Feb 2012

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  1. GNWT Report to Annual Harvest Meeting Feb 2012

  2. NWT Resident Harvest • Current Resident Regulations: • - Require hunting licence • - can purchase 2 bull only tags per year • Season 15 Aug to 30 April • PCH only area in NWT where residents can harvest caribou • Data based on: • - Licensing system record of hunters/tags sold • Mail in (3 wave) resident survey (10/11 still in progress) • Phone around to those not reporting through mail out to increase reporting • Check station data (fall 2009, 2010, and 2011)

  3. NWT Resident Harvest

  4. NWT Resident Harvest • Maximum harvest assumes all unreported tags were used • addressing issue with Box numbers • ENR still needs to work on increasing reporting rates • Due to closures of other areas, need to continue to look at data to ensure residents from other regions to PCH range to hunt are included

  5. No Hunting: 1 April to 15 June No Hunting Tag Required No Hunting Tag Required No Restrictions

  6. Check Station • GTC reported the data • Still need to compare data to harvest data collected by GRRB and IGC • continue hunter education part of check station • monitoring in the springtime • continue to run check station in collaboration with partners

  7. Body Condition Samples from Porcupine Caribou

  8. Shingle Point Sight-in-your-rifle 22 July 2011

  9. ENR plans to: • Continue to work with co-management partners and other Parties to implement the plan • Work with partners to improve harvest data collection • Help compare information from checkstation and field reporting • Highway signs • Continue hunter education work – building on messages • Maximize bull harvest in the fall when bulls are in best shape and reduce cow harvest • Report data • Sight in your rifle

  10. Key Recommendations for all Parties: Continue to implement the HMP • Support harvest data collection • Continue to support monitoring the herd • Finish updating modeling tools • Continue communication efforts • Native User Agreements • Administrative process for PCH tag (if required)

  11. Key Recommendations to PCMB: • Green zone • Continue to promote bull dominated harvest • Continue to promote the need for harvest reporting • Support harmonization of the regulations • Media on development of new modeling tools • Continue hunter education efforts

  12. Questions ? Comments?

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