Waterfowl Harvest Benefits in Northern Aboriginal Communities and Potential Climate Change Impacts

Emina Krcmar, Gerrit van Kooten and Ann Chan-McLeod

No 2010-05, Working Papers from University of Victoria, Department of Economics, Resource Economics and Policy Analysis Research Group

Abstract: Migratory waterfowl are important to the diets of residents in Canada’s northern communities. Contrary to recreational hunters, indigenous peoples have rights to harvest wildlife for subsistence needs without permits. As a result, migratory waterfowl are an important component of diets of Aboriginal peoples in northern Canada, substituting for expensive beef transported from the south. Wild geese and duck provide many benefits to native people, including improved nutrition and health. In this paper, scaled-down data from global climate models are used in a wildlife model to project potential migratory waterfowl abundance in the Northwest Territories for three future periods up to 2080. The models project potential future harvests of geese and ducks by Aboriginal hunters and the financial and nutritional benefits. It turns out that northern Aboriginal peoples can benefit significantly as a result of climate change that affects migratory waterfowl, but likely at the expense of hunters and recreationists in other regions of North America.

Keywords: subsistence harvests by indigenous peoples; diet and nutrition; climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2010-10
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