Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula Herd
The Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula herd range is entirely in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR). The co-management board in the ISR is the Wildlife Management Advisory Council (NWT), and is the primary vehicle for wildlife management.
This herd is being managed separately based on recommendations from the WMAC(NWT), which included changes to the existing barren-ground caribou hunting zones to better reflect the core range of each herd.
During community meetings in Tuktoytaktuk in 2005, it was pointed out that caribou were staying on the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula year round. This area is not reflected in the range of the neighboring Cape Bathurst Herd and was not included in the 2005 survey. It had been suggested that after the domestic reindeer herd was moved off the peninsula caribou moved back. They are now being managed as a herd separate from the Cape Bathurst herd. Movement data is being collected on the Tuktoyaktuk to look at movement of animals of this herd and movement between it and the Cape Bathurst herd. It is unknown how many of the animals in this herd are feral reindeer or hybrids.
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2006
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3078
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2009
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2752 + / - 276
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Harvest Levels
There is currently only aboriginal subsistence harvesting of this herd.
Threats
In the Invuik Region, local renewable resource councils (RRCs) and hunter and trapper committees (HTCs) have expressed concerns with predators. Hunters have observed large wolf pack sizes in the caribou range. Grizzly bears are under a quota system, however wolves are not and local HTCs and co-management boards encourage subsistence harvesting of wolves.
The proposed all-weather road from Tuktoyaktuk to Inuvik will occur in the wintering range of the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula herd. Future development of gas fields in conjunction with the proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipeline project in the winter range is another threat to the herd. |
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