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Beluga Hearing NUNAVIK MARINE REGION WILDLIFE BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR BELUGA WHALE HARVESTING IN NUNAVIK ______________________________________________________ January 21, 2020 - Volume 1 _________________________________________________________________________________________ International Reporting Inc. 1-800-899-0006 - i - INDEX TO PROCEEDINGS PAGE NO. Opening Remarks ............................. 3 Presentation by Wildlife Management ......... 11 Presentation by Makivik ..................... 48 Presentation by DFO ......................... 105 Certificate ................................. 185 1 International Reporting Inc. 1-800-899-0006 - 3 - 1 January 21, 2020 2 3 --- Whereupon the hearing commenced at 10:57 a.m. 4 5 MS. SALAMIVA: We will start our meeting 6 now. The rest will come in today. Some are out 7 smoking, I think. Thank you for coming here, welcome, 8 to the public hearing of Beluga. This is a very 9 important matter. We’ve been hearing from our parents 10 for a very long time that animals are not supposed to 11 be mistreated, so we will have to work together 12 properly. Nobody needs to get angry; nobody needs to 13 fight over because we are here to talk about Beluga. 14 So I want to work well together instead of just 15 arguing, because the hunters are here and the DFO are 16 also here, and it will be better for us to work 17 together properly. That’s how we want to see it 18 happen. 19 Today different organizations will 20 start with their presentation and Makivik will be the 21 first one and then EMRWB, so these are the 22 organizations that will start first. And then 23 tomorrow the hunters will have an opportunity. After 24 their presentation, you will have an opportunity to 25 ask questions. For example, Makivik will be the first International Reporting Inc. 1-800-899-0006 - 4 - 1 one to do their presentation and then you will have an 2 opportunity to ask questions. We want you to be very 3 comfortable while you are staying here, so inform our 4 staff. Thank you. This is the chairperson of EMRWB. 5 MR. BLACKNED: Thank you all. My name 6 is Gordon Blackned. I’m the current chair of the 7 Eeyou Marine Region Wildlife Board. I’ve been, I 8 guess, appointed it would be about two years now. 9 It’s challenging, you’ve been trusting and I’m quite 10 pleased to be here interacting with the Inuit with 11 regards to the topic of the Beluga whale hearing. 12 This is my first time to a function like this. And as 13 you’re aware, the Cree and the Inuit have always been 14 proactive in the past, you know, with the relationship 15 they have had for the way they survive. And I’m glad 16 to help them maintain throughout the years. And 17 presumably into the future we will come to each other 18 on account of the Boards that are expected to work 19 together through NMRWB as well as the EMRWB. 20 First of all, I just wanted to express 21 my condolences to the community of Sanikiluaq. We 22 lost one of our Board members before the Christmas 23 break, Pete (indiscernible). We admire 24 (indiscernible) and our Board really enjoyed him, his 25 time with us and we’re sad to hear of his passing and International Reporting Inc. 1-800-899-0006 - 5 - 1 I extend my condolences to the community of 2 Sanikiluaq. 3 Apart from this, I just wanted to 4 inform you that I’m not a practicing harvester in 5 terms of what a Cree harvester is. The Cree, they 6 trap, they hunt, they fish and all the activities they 7 do in the bush. I went to school most of my time. I 8 spent a lot of time in school and I came back and I 9 started working for my people. I’m actually a 10 (indiscernible). I started out as a teacher and I 11 worked my way up the ladder to the top position in the 12 Cree School Board. So thirty years I spent there. 13 I came out of that organization to be 14 the chief of my community (indiscernible). I did one 15 term and then after that, I didn’t have I guess the 16 know-how or whatever but, I mean, it was confusing on 17 how Cree policy works sometimes. But in any case, I 18 wasn’t re-elected, but that’s the way the political 19 ball bounces. In any case, there was an opening to be 20 a part of the Eeyou Marine Region Wildlife Board and I 21 took that opportunity and became a director and then 22 subsequently I became the chair which is what I am 23 today. 24 Where we are now in this very building, 25 we’re hearing about the issues regarding Beluga whale International Reporting Inc. 1-800-899-0006 - 6 - 1 harvesting and whatnot. This should be very 2 interesting. It’s been very interesting over the last 3 several weeks that we’ve been fed with a lot of 4 information regarding this matter. Just yesterday 5 when we were came in and we had our preparation 6 meeting for this hearing and things are very, very 7 interesting to learn about (indiscernible), and the 8 animals get harvested. 9 We’re here as the Eeyou Marine Region 10 Wildlife Board because we share part of the waters 11 with the coastal areas with the Inuit and a little 12 south of where we are now in (indiscernible). So 13 we’re here. Your interests are our interests and we 14 want to work with you and also hear you in terms of 15 what your interests are regarding the Beluga whale. 16 And with that, thank you and we’ll be 17 seeing each other for the rest of this week. Thank 18 you very much. 19 MS. SALAMIVA: Thank you, Gordon. 20 Qajaq was working for us for a while but she became 21 our lawyer again. So we are happy to have her and she 22 will present you how we will proceed. Thank you. 23 MS. ROBINSON: Thank you, Gordon. 24 Thank you Salamiva for your opening remarks. I’m just 25 going to give a little overview of what we’re doing International Reporting Inc. 1-800-899-0006 - 7 - 1 here. As both chairpersons shared with you, this is a 2 public hearing about Beluga harvesting and management 3 within the Nunavik Marine Region. Part of the Nunavik 4 Marine Region has overlap areas with the Cree and 5 Makivik and the Cree, Grand Counsel the Cree 6 negotiated in their overlap agreement how decisions 7 would be made for that region. And that’s why we have 8 the Eeyou Marine Region Wildlife Board here with us 9 because for areas of the joint zone, the Boards are 10 going to have to sit together to make their decisions. 11 So it was very important that the Eeyou Marine Region 12 Board members hear what you have to say as well. So 13 that is why they are here today. And we welcome them 14 and it’s a wonderful opportunity for the two Boards to 15 sit together and learn from you. 16 I want to go over a little bit of the 17 schedule and we talked about this last night. Today 18 is going to be presentations from different 19 institutions. We’re going to start right when I’m 20 done with an overview presentation from the staff of 21 the Nunavik Marine Region Wildlife Board. We’re going 22 to talk a little bit about the history and a little 23 bit about the management systems that have been in 24 place for Beluga in the Nunavik Marine Region. 25 Then we are, I’m assuming, going to be International Reporting Inc. 1-800-899-0006 - 8 - 1 done by lunch and then following the lunch, we expect 2 to hear from Makivik. The way it will go is after an 3 organization presents, we’ll go around the tables and 4 each of the organizations, you’ll have a turn to ask 5 your questions. I ask that you ask questions, don’t 6 engage in a debate. It’s not about fighting or, you 7 know, saying your opinion. This is your opportunity 8 to ask questions based on what people tell you, what 9 they present to you. If you disagree, you can say I 10 disagree with this and this is why. 11 But this is a chance for us to really 12 understand, test and challenge and ask questions about 13 what is said. So the Board will know whether that 14 information is reliable, if it’s something that is, 15 you know, something that they should be considering 16 when they make their decisions. After you have your 17 round of questions, the Board, as well as the Board, 18 me, the Board’s lawyers and staff, might have some 19 questions for you as well. And then once those 20 questions are done, we’ll go on to the next presenter. 21 22 We want to make sure that we capture 23 what everybody’s saying so we’re recording this. But 24 when it’s a recording, it’s hard to know who is 25 talking. So every time you start talking on the International Reporting Inc. 1-800-899-0006 - 9 - 1 microphone, it would be very helpful if you say who 2 you are and who you are here with.
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