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’

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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 ;

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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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