NUNAVUT COASTAL RESOURCE INVENTORY Iglulik Pilot Project NUNAVUT COASTAL RESOURCE INVENTORY Nunavut Coastal Resource Inventory May 2008 Department of Economic Development and Transportation Fisheries and Sealing Division (now Department of Environment) Box 1000 Station 1390 Iqaluit, Nunavut, X0A 0H0 ISBN: 978-1-55325-148-4 IGLULIK PILOT PROJECT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Pilot Project deliverables included: Fifty maps accompany this document; forty four have been aggregated into several distinct categories (Archaeological Sites, • Provision of a final report that provides the coastal resource This document is a report of the first phase of the Nunavut Coastal Mammals, Fish, Birds, Invertebrates, Marine Plants, Areas of inventory in a GIS database; Resource Inventory (NCRI) undertaken with the Hamlet of Iglulik, High Diversity and Areas Important for Other Reasons) and an situated on Iglulik Island, in Foxe Basin off the north-eastern coast • Provision of resource inventory maps for the Hamlet of additional six showing a map of Nunavut, the extent of the study of Melville Peninsula. The term “coastal inventory”, as it applies to Iglulik; area, a map of the study area extracted from the Nunavut Atlas, this report, is the collection of information on coastal resources and and the survey area with place names in Inuktitut (both syllabics • Provision of all documents used and methodology employed activities, gained from community interviews, research, reports, and the transliteration). They are complemented by extensive throughout the coastal inventory process; and, maps, etc., which can be spatially mapped, to assist in management, tabular information. The map format was chosen, given the broad development and conservation of coastal areas. • Thorough evaluation of the methodology and supporting geographic reach of the interviewee’s responses, to provide a materials that were used to carry out the entire inventory synoptic view of the collected data. A common scale (1:2,200,000) Coastal resource inventories have been conducted in many process. was chosen for all maps in order to permit convenient comparisons jurisdictions throughout Canada, notably along our Atlantic to be made from one map to another. and West Coasts. These inventories have been used as a means of The interview team was made up of four individuals: the interviewer, gathering reliable information on coastal resources so as to permit a translator, a recorder and an observer. The process varied from 2-5 Acquiring knowledge about available resources can be empowering their strategic assessment leading to promotion of economic hours, depending on the amount of detail elicited in the response while acquisition of the resources can lead to prosperity and well development opportunities, coastal management and conservation. and the amount of clarification required during the interview. The being. However, this newly available knowledge carries with it some In Nunavut, two other very important applications exist for the entire interview followed a predefined survey. The first round of responsibilities related to the proper governance of the data and coastal resource inventory; preserving IQ and preparing for rapid questions concerned information about the interviewee’s early life any activities that might result from their use. environmental changes, particularly climate-driven changes. history. These were followed by resource-based topics, in a specific order, that were directly tied to photographs of species. Responses A number of recommendations are provided, among them the view The Fisheries and Sealing Division of the Department of were documented in real-time and all proceedings recorded using that the Government of Nunavut’s Department of Environment Environment (formerly with the Department of Economic audio and video equipment. Data that was amenable to mapping (Fisheries and Sealing Division) should proceed immediately Development and Transportation) initiated this inventory by was drawn on the charts provided. Upon completion of the with the next phase of the Coastal Resource Inventory and that conducting a feasibility study followed by a Pilot Project initiative. interviews in Iglulik, recordings were transcribed and translated, it should focus on four communities geographically dispersed In April 2007, consultants from Dalhousie University recommended and the map information was scanned, digitized and prepared for over the Territory. Two communities are recommended from the Iglulik as the site of the first study. After consulting Iglulik, and data analysis. Baffin Region, (Pond Inlet or perhaps Clyde River in the north and obtaining their agreement to participate, suitable dates and venues Kimmirut or perhaps Sanikiluaq in the south); one from Kivalliq were then selected for the interviews. (Arviat or perhaps Coral Harbour); and one from Kitikmeot (Kugluktuk or perhaps Cambridge Bay). 1 NUNAVUT COASTAL RESOURCE INVENTORY 2 IGLULIK PILOT PROJECT TABLE OF CONTENTS APPENDIX 1 MAPS AND TABLES ........................................................... 29 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................ 1 APPENDIX 2 IGLULIK INTERVIEWEE BIOGRAPHIES ............................... 130 TABLE OF FIGURES .................................................................................. 4 APPENDIX 3 NUNAVUT COASTAL RESOURCE INVENTORY SURVEY ...... 131 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 6 APPENDIX 4 SPECIES PHOTOS ............................................................ 164 INTERVIEW METHODOLOGY .................................................................... 9 APPENDIX 5 NCRI FIELD GUIDE ........................................................... 169 RESOURCE INVENTORY ......................................................................... 14 APPENDIX 6 NUNAVUT COASTAL RESOURCE INVENTORY SPECIES LIST AND MAPPING CODES ................................ 178 ANALYSIS ............................................................................................. 22 APPENDIX 7 NCRI FIRST CONTACT CALLING PROTOCOL ....................... 183 RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................ 25 APPENDIX 8 WHAT IS A COASTAL ZONE INVENTORY? ........................ 185 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND CONTACTS ............................................... 26 APPENDIX 9 NUNAVUT CRI PARTICIPANTCONSENT FORM ....................... 188 APPENDIX 10 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ................................ 190 APPENDIX 11 REFERENCES .................................................................. 191 3 NUNAVUT COASTAL RESOURCE INVENTORY TABLE OF FIGURES Figure 12: Harp Seal areas of occupation ......................................48 Figure 24: Fish areas of occupation (Arctic Staghorn Sculpin, Capelin, Stickleback) ...........................72 Figure 1: Map of Nunavut ................................................................7 Figure 13: Bowhead Whale areas of occupation ...........................50 Figure 25: Fish historic areas of occupation Figure 2: Image depicting the full extent of the study area Figure 14: Beluga areas of occupation ...........................................52 (Arctic Char and Greenland Shark) ...............................................74 used in interviews ...........................................................................11 Figure 15: Bearded Seal areas of occupation .................................54 Figure 26: Bird Areas of High Abundance Figure 3: Archaeological Sites - These former habitations (Arctic Tern, Black Guillemot, Canada Goose, Common Eider, (rock/sod houses), are a remnant of a previous time, Figure 16: Marine Mammal historic areas of occupation Herring Gull, King Eider, Red Phalarope, Red Throated Loon, are where many of the interviewees were born and raised ...........30 (Harp Seal, Killer Whale, Narwhal, Polar Bear and Walrus) ........56 Rock Ptarmigan, Snow Goose, Willow Ptarmigan) ......................76 Figure 4: Camp Sites .......................................................................32 Figure 17: Fish Areas of High Abundance Figure 27: Birds of Prey areas of occupation (Artic Char, Arctic Cod, Arctic Staghorn Sculpin, Lake Trout) ...58 (Rough Legged Hawk, Snowy Owl, Peregrine Falcon) .................78 Figure 5: Marine Mammal Areas of High Abundance (Bearded, Harp, Ringed Seals, Bowhead Whale and Walrus) .......34 Figure 18: Fish Spawning Areas (Artic Char, Red Lake Trout) ....60 Figure 28: Gulls & Ravens areas of occupation (Glaucous Gull, Herring Gull, Raven) ...........................................80 Figure 6: Marine Mammal Migration Routes (Ringed and Figure 19: Lake Trout areas of occupation ....................................62 Bearded Seals, Beluga, Polar Bear, Bowhead Whale) ....................36 Figure 29: Ducks & Loons areas of occupation Figure 20: Red Lake Trout areas of occupation ............................64 (Red Throated Loon, Common Loon, Common Eider, Figure 7: Walrus areas of occupation ............................................38 Arctic Loon, Oldsquaw, King Eider) ..............................................82 Figure 21: Arctic Cod areas of occupation ....................................66 Figure 8: Ringed Seal areas of occupation .....................................40 Figure 30: Geese & Swan areas of occupation Figure 22: Arctic Char (areas of occupation .................................68 (Snow Goose, Canada Goose, Tundra