Date : May 30th, 2011
Source : Peter Palmer ( Tunilik Adventure )
As of last week, resulting from negotiations and consultations with the Quebec native parties, and the joint biological services of both Labrador and Quebec, the Quebec Government has finally given the go ahead for this falls caribou hunting season. The Schefferville outfitters hunting the George River herd have now been granted a total harvest quota of 171 double caribou tags for the region. This is the maximum seasonal harvest amount allowed for the entire George River herds sport hunting season of 2011. Caribou sport hunting has been officially closed in Labrador.
Each Schefferville outfitter now receives a permit quota that is calculated on 75% of the total number of hunters that hunted with their respective buisnesses during the past 2009 season. Any tags that are not used by Schefferville outfitters fall into a regional pool of available caribou permits. These non-used caribou licences can be used by any other outfitter of the Schefferville region that might require additional caribou permits. Hunters are still permited to harvest 2 caribou each of either sex.
In order to control the harvest quotas of both the Leaf River and George river herds, new hunting zones have been created. This development will help ensure no harvest overlap from both regions, The new Tunilk hunting zone now extends from the 67th meriden in the west towards the east ending at the Labrador border.
The impact on the Schefferville Outfitting region :
As it stands right now, Tunilk Adventure is the only caribou outfitter left with any substantial hunter volume in the entire Schefferville sector. Recently, two larger Schefferville outfitters have deserted the area to move their hunting operations west to the Leaf river herd in the Caniapiscau sectors. Apparently these outfitters did not have sufficent caribou tags that would enable them to support their hunter seat requirements on their combined airplane charters from Montreal.
The good news for our hunters:
Tunilik Adventure now has most of the northern Schefferville hunting areas all to itself. We also have a herd of 78,000 caribou that will migrate naturally, un-molested, and not hunted throughout our northern ranges this season. We are looking forward to a very productive hunting season along with all those nice big herd bulls that will not be harvested by any one else except by Tunilik clients.
Happy hunting for 2011….. |
Tunilik Adventure, in it’s continuing quest to expand and deliver the best
hunting and fishing in northern Quebec, has recently acquired another outfitting
service in Schefferville. The acquisition of Twin River Lodge and their nine
additional camp destinations will greatly increase the hunting mobility factor
for our hunters. We now have 17 hunting camp locations to chose from and cover
most of the migratory routes of the George River caribou herd. |
