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Canada

Canadians catch about 600 narwhals per year.^[1] They catch 100 belugas per year in the Beaufort Sea^{[2] [3]} and 300 in northern Quebec.^[4] The annual catch in these areas varies between 300 and 400 belugas per year. Numbers are not available for Nunavut since 2003, when the Arviat area, with about half Nunavut's hunters, caught 200-300 belugas, though the authors say hunters resist giving complete numbers.^[5] Harvested meat is sold through shops and supermarkets in northern communities where whale meat is a component of the traditional diet.^[6] The Whale and Dolphin Conservation says^[when?]:

"Canada has pursued a policy of marine mammal management which appears to be more to do with political expediency rather than conservation."

Canada left the IWC in 1982, and the only IWC-regulated species currently harvested by the Canadian Inuit is the bowhead whale.^[7] As of 2004, the limit on bowhead whale hunting allows for the hunt of one whale every two years from the Hudson Bay-Foxe Basin population, and one whale every 13 years from the Baffin Bay-Davis Strait population.^[8] This is roughly one-fiftieth of the bowhead whale harvest limits in Alaska (see below).

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Canada

Traditional whaling practices of Canada’s Pacific Northwest Indigenous peoples are grounded in spirituality, culture, economics, and subsistence. Makah, Nuu-Chah-Nulth and other coastal peoples relied on the whale hunt for generations. Pre-contact whaling traditions, fed numerous communities without causing a decline in whale populations. ^[9]