Multimillion-dollar Nunavut study to consider Gjoa Haven fishery – Nunatsiaq News
January 18, 2016
Universities to team up with local HTOs to study sustainability of local fishery
A group of southern researchers have partnered with hunters and fishers in Gjoa Haven to figure out whether it might be possible, or even desirable, to start up a local commercial fishery in the western Nunavut community.
But a lot of things must be considered first, says Stephan Schott.
Researchers will need to find out where the fish are, how many there are, whether a commercial fishery might impact subsistence fishing and whether a small processing plant would actually be sustainable and not end up as another piece of abandoned northern infrastructure in 10 years.
“We want this to be fact-based and evidence-based and see what are the most reasonable things to do,” said Schott.
