Page'Al4, October 17,1979-NorthShoreNews

‘Hunteérs “began

_ trapped in a frozen bay off

for the Canadian Fisheries

a and Oceans said. -*) ..---"
Fisheries and “Oceans
“district manager Don..

‘trapped when a storm blew

-the narwhals’ exit.

“There wasn’t much we
could do, there. was no -way
- to cut a lane .to them,”
said. .

Hunters. from the village
of Igoolik were’ given per-
mission’ to” “harvest”
-narwhals, thie fisheries
agency’s term for killing

done with harpoons.
- Wildlife officers decided

THEY CLIMBED. THE MOUNTAIN FIRST: so Allan

Angell of Bell Realty accepts the trophy on behalf of
his team, from Don Homer of Block Bros, for winning
the Third Annual Climb for Crippled ¢ Children in a time.

‘Bell Realty
wins Grouse

of 14° ‘minutes, six’ and one tenth. seconds Paul
Gauthier, aged 8, representimg ‘Timmy’ for the B.C.
Lions Society for Crippled Children was on hand for

‘the event. (Ellsworth Dickson photo) | them starve or drown.

limb

Each tean paid an entry
fee and, in addition, the
second place team paid a
penalty which was doubled
for the team placing and
third -- and son on
progressively down --to the te, .
' last team, which paiddearly. . . ; :

Two-time winners, Block
Bros. Realty, were ousted to.
second place in Friday’s
third annual Grouse
Mountain climb for crippled -
children by North Shore
realty company teams.

Bell Realty emerged the

_YELLOWKNIFE, ‘North-. -
‘west. Territories (UPI) -"
Sunday.
- Hills about 40 narwhals’

~ Baffin Island, far above the-
- Arctic Circle, a spokesman’

&

Dowler said the narwhals,
feeding in Agu Bay, were

. $ea ice into the bay, blocking .

he.

the

them. Harvesting is usually -

allowing the hunters to
harvest the narwhals. was..
more humane than letting’

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victor in the gruelling
scramble from the Grouse
Nest and back via The Peak,

The event raised ap-
proximately $1,900 for: the
B.C. Lions

Society * for ;

an *.

4

in the wind: i might clea a
bay, but cold: Sub-freezing.
temperatures set in ~soon

- after the storm, -making ‘the.
bay impassable.” a)

“There- are’ wily ‘three or
‘four : -air holes ‘open: in. ‘the
bay, and ‘they've been
coming - up _ there ©for - air: .
Already about three or four
of the younger whales have
died because they've. been
crowded out, ” Dowler. said. .

Narwhals are of the: whale
family, average from 10 to'16
feet Idng and have a single
ivory. tusk. which can .grow
up to 9 feet long. One:theory
is that the sight of :narwhals
inspired _ the : ‘medieval. art
work of unicorns, “~~

Dowler | “said ‘hunters * in
Agoolik-are- -only-aliowed- to-
take 15 narwhals a year but,
because of the’ Agu’ Bay
Situation, the quotas would. be
ignored. |

Tgoolik i is . 250, ‘iniles north
of the Arctic circle.

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