Video – Nunavut hunters harvest 230 narwhal trapped in ice near Pond Inlet – CBC

‘These whales were just waiting to drown and die,’ says mayor

Dec 11, 2015

Hunters in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, have harvested 230 narwhal that were trapped in ice and had no chance of survival.

A hunter first heard the whales under the ice in mid-November, according to the local hunters and trappers association.

Then, about two weeks ago, hunters using hydrophones — microphones for listening to underwater sound — heard the narwhal and started the search for them.

“These whales were just waiting to drown and die,” Inuarak said in Inuktitut.

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