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GNWT Report to Annual Harvest Meeting Feb 2011. 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 2011
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 resident survey (09/10 still in progress) • Phone around to those not reporting (08/09) • Check station data (9/10 and 10/11)
NWT Resident Harvest • Variance very high due to low reporting (~50%) • Maximum harvest assumes all unreported tags were used • ENR still needs to work on increasing reporting rates • Due to closures of other areas, need to look at data to ensure residents from other regions are not coming to PCH range to hunt
Check Station • 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
Shingle Point Sight-in-your-rifle 25 July 2010
ENR plans to: • Continue to work with co-management partners and other Parties to implement the plan • Improve harvest data collection • Compare information • 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
Key Recommendations for all Parties: Continue to implement the HMP • Support harvest data collection in NWT • Continue to monitor the herd including bull:cow ratio • Finish updating modeling tools • Administrative process for PCH tag (if required)
Key Recommendations to PCMB: • Green zone • Continue to promote bull dominated harvest • Continue to promote the need for harvest reporting • Media on development of new modeling tools • Hunter education