Editing Voices of Thunder (section)

=Polar Bear Quota Reductions=

At the start of this century, however, polar bears seemed to be declining in numbers, and the hunting quota in the MC PBMU was severely reduced. 

Between 2001 and 2004 the MC PBMU was subjected to a three-year polar bear moratorium (a full suspension of hunting). 

And in 2005 Gjoa Haven and Cambridge Bay signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU<ref>Nunavut Wildlife Management Board (2005, 8 March) Polar Bear Management Memorandum of Understanding for the management of the ‘M’Clintock Channel’ polar bear population. [Memorandum of Understanding]. Cambridge Bay</ref>) with the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board (NWMB) for alternating quotas of one and two tags per year until 2015, while Taloyoak did not receive any tags from the MC management unit between 2001 and 2015. 



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