Inuit strongly asserted the right to subsistence harvest of bowhead whales during negotiations over the Nunavut land claim. Repulse Bay hunters held the first licensed bowhead whale hunt in 1996.

Whale numbers began to rebound in the mid-1990s. A licence is now required to take a bowhead whale. A date has not yet been set for the summer hunt.

Iqaluit bowhead whale hunters depart in boats from the local breakwater on Monday morning. That evening, the hunters found and killed a whale that was spotted near their camp. Inuit hunters in Iqaluit ...

Bowhead hunting became legal again when Nunavut was created in 1999, by which time the whale's numbers in the Eastern Arctic had rebounded to at least 10,000.

The Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort stock of bowhead whales numbers about 10,500, slightly less than the entire population worldwide. The majority of whales live in the Eastern Arctic, where the Inuit are ...

We’ll try again before we go home.” Baker Lake was one of two communities that received a bowhead tag this year, and set out on their hunt July 27 and had a little more than a month to catch one.

But it has been more than 100 years since Inuit in Nunavut’s capital city have harvested a bowhead whale, since the species had been off-limits to hunting for decades.

Killer whales have been recorded in Baffin Bay and the Davis Strait for over a century, but spotting the mammals near Kugaaruk is “pretty unusual” and points to a loss of sea ice, Ferguson ...

As bowhead numbers started to rebound in the mid-1990s, hunters have been slowly getting their chance. Today, a licence is needed to harvest bowhead whales. According to recent estimates, there could ...