Saturday, July 21, 2012

Climate change opens up Arctic fisheries – but should Canada cut bait?

Globe and Mail: Pangnirtung, a solitary hamlet of 1,500 clinging to the granite mouth of Pangnirtung Fjord in Baffin Island's Cumberland Sound, seems like a quintessential, isolated Arctic community. Low, weather-battered board homes punctuate its dirt streets. Some are literally cabled to the ground against the wind. Often, they are cramped with people. "Overcrowding is a big problem," Mayor Sakiasie Sowdlooapik tells me, speaking in his small office in a narrow corridor of the community centre. Not many here...

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/climate-change-opens-up-arctic-fisheries-but-should-canada-cut-bait/article4431852/

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