Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Tags: social sciences, beluga whale, harvest
| Principal Investigator: | Loseto, Lisa (4) |
| Licence Number: | 17003 |
| Organization: | Fisheries and Oceans |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2022
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| Issued: | Apr 20, 2022 |
| Project Team: | Enooyaq Sudlovenick |
Objective(s): To find out how hunters choose certain whales to harvest, and how they look at beluga health.
Project Description: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5119. Document Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and Inuvialuit Knowledge related to beluga health. Through close collaboration between southern university partners and Tuktoyaktuk HTC. The end goal is to find out how hunters choose certain whales to harvest, and how they look at beluga health. All interviews will be conducted in Tuktoyaktuk. Each interview will last approximately 30 minutes to 2 hours, depending on the Local Knowledge Holders (LKH) availability. A local research coordinator from Tuktoyaktuk will be doing all the interviews. Interviews will either be in English or Inuktitut. The interviews are based on predetermined questions, which will be approved by the University Research Ethics Board. There are 17 questions in total, and they are all open-ended questions relating to beluga health, hunting methods and preference of the hunters, and temporal and spatial changes in beluga harvests. All LKH, will be recruited through several means, including advertisements on the local radio, facebook and through community-referral (snowball recruitment). Interviews will be recorded via a digital audio recorder when consent is given by the LKH. Notes will also be taken and combined with transcribed interviews. Manifest content analysis will be used to focus on factual knowledge, rather than attempting to translate any underlying meaning from LKHs. This project has been developed with the Tuktoyaktuk Hunters and Trappers Committee (HTC), including formulation of the interview question. Additionally, the Tuktoyaktuk HTC will provide a list of recommendations for a local research coordinator to conduct all the interviews. There are ongoing communications with the Fisheries and Joint Management Committee in Inuvik on project updates. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from April 20, 2022 to May 30, 2022
