Nunavut Wildlife Management Board

Roster of Resolutions
Regular Meeting No.24
1999 - 00

(2000-067  to  2000-084)

Resolution 2000-067

Resolved that the NWMB accept the agenda for Meeting No. 24 as presented, with the addition of one item.
Moved by: Moses Koonoo   Seconded by: Harry Flaherty
Carried Date: 23 November 1999

Resolution 2000-068

Resolved that the NWMB adopt the minutes for Meeting No. 23 conducted at Naujaat on 24-26 August 1999, with minor revisions.
Moved by: David Alagalak   Seconded by: Makabe Nartok
Carried Date: 23 November 1999

Resolution 2000-069

Resolved that the NWMB adopt the minutes for Conference Call No. 44 conducted on 14 October 1999, with minor revisions.
Moved by: Harry Flaherty   Seconded by: Moses Koonoo
Carried Date: 23 November 1999

Resolution 2000-070

Resolved that the NWMB adopt the minutes for Conference Call No. 45 conducted on 04 November 1999, with minor revisions.
Moved by: Harry Flaherty   Seconded by: Joan Scottie
Carried Date: 23 November 1999

Resolution 2000-071

Resolved that the NWMB accept the Financial Variance Report as at 22 November 1999, with minor clarifications.
Moved by: David Alagalak   Seconded by: Moses Koonoo
Carried Date: 23 November 1999

Resolution 2000-072

Resolved that the NWMB endorse in principle the staffing of a position by DFO, to be located in the NSA, in support of the NMC.
Moved by: David Alagalak   Seconded by: Harry Flaherty
Carried Date: 23 November 1999

Resolution 2000-073

Resolved that the NWMB approve the request from Quliruaq Incorporated (Amarok HTO), Mittimatalik HTO, Kabva Marine, and Mayukalik HTO / KTJ Holdings, in respect to the 1999 exploratory shrimp fishery allocations that were granted to them earlier by decision of the NWMB for Shrimp Fishing Area 2 north of 63ºN, to fish 475 metric tonnes of their allocations in the waters of the NSA (i.e. within 12 miles of shore) in this same Shrimp Fishing Area, but with none of this fishing to take place in the waters of Cumberland Sound.
Moved by: Moses Koonoo    Seconded by: Meeka Mike
Abstained: Harry Flaherty
Carried Date: 23 November 1999

Resolution 2000-074

Resolved that the NWMB endorse the initiative by the Nunavut Development Corporation and others to establish a Nunavut Inter-Settlement Trade Committee, and further that the NWMB agree in principle to participate in this Committee as the NWMB considers appropriate.
Moved by: David Alagalak   Seconded by: Harry Flaherty
Carried Date: 24 November 1999

Resolution 2000-075

Resolved that the NWMB endorse the current initiative to establish a Nunavut Environmental Contaminants Committee (NECC), but that the NWMB communicate with the proponents:
      -   Advising that conflicting work schedules will preclude participation by the NWMB as a full member of the Committee;
      -   Requesting that the NWMB be accorded observer status with the Committee;
      -   Offering to serve in a resource capacity in respect to matters pertaining to the expertise of the NWMB that the NECC may identify from time to time.
Moved by: Gordon Koshinsky   Seconded by: Moses Koonoo
Opposed: Harry Flaherty, Meeka Mike, Joan Scottie
Carried Date: 24 November 1999

Resolution 2000-076

Resolved that the NWMB approve the research priorities developed during the recent Wildlife Research Priorities Workshop; and also that:
      -   The Director of Wildlife Management review the present score sheet and scoring process with the participants, and develop recommendations for changes for the consideration of the Board; and that
      -   More attention be devoted to explaining the purposes of these exercises to the participants well in advance of future wildlife research priorities workshops.
Moved by: David Alagalak   Seconded by: Harry Flaherty
Carried Date: 24 November 1999

Resolution 2000-077

Resolved that the NWMB urge the World Wildlife Fund not to finalize its Conservation Plan for Eastern Arctic Bowhead Whales until the NWMB publishes its Inuit Bowhead Knowledge Study.
Moved by: Moses Koonoo   Seconded by: Gordon Koshinsky
Carried Date: 24 November 1999

Resolution 2000-078

Resolved that the NWMB to deny the request from the Pelly Bay HTO to hunt a bowhead whale in 2000 due to the prior need to determine, among other things, the stock to which bowhead whales at Pelly Bay belong; and further that the NWMB encourage DFO to conduct the necessary research in order to elucidate the matter of bowhead stock affinity in this location.
Moved by: Joan Scottie   Seconded by: Meeka Mike
Carried Date: 25 November 1999

Resolution 2000-080

Resolved that the NWMB meet in-camera.
Moved by: David Alagalak   Seconded by: Makabe Nartok
Carried Date: 24 November 1999

Resolution 2000-081

Resolved that the in-camera session be closed.
Moved by: Moses Koonoo   Seconded by: Gordon Koshinsky
Carried Date: 24 November 1999

Resolution 2000-081

Resolved that the NWMB advise the RWOs that the NWMB is considering establishing a total allowable harvest of one bowhead whale from the Hudson Bay / Foxe Basin stock, and inviting the RWOs to submit proposals, including joint proposals as they may wish, for the conduct of a bowhead hunt, with the proposals to address such matters as hunt planning, funding needs and sources, equipment to be used, and proposed time of harvest.
Moved by: Moses Koonoo   Seconded by: Makabe Nartok
Carried Date: 25 November 1999

Resolution 2000-082

Resolved that the NWMB approve a contribution of up to $4,500 towards the travel costs of RWO representatives to attend the forthcoming workshop sponsored by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) leading to the preparation of a Conservation Plan for Eastern Arctic Bowhead Whales, this contribution subject to the condition that the WWF not finalize its Conservation Plan before the Inuit Bowhead Knowledge Study is published.
Moved by: Harry Flaherty   Seconded by: David Alagalak
Carried Date: 25 November 1999

Resolution 2000-083

Resolved that the next (25th) regular Meeting of the NWMB be conducted in Iqaluit the second week of March 2000.
Moved by: Makabe Nartok    Seconded by: Harry Flaherty
Carried Date: 25 November 1999

Resolution 2000-084

Resolved that the 24th regular Meeting of the NWMB be adjourned.
Moved by: David Alagalak    Seconded by: Harry Flaherty
Carried Date: 25 November 1999