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Thursday, March 11, 2021

FISHES Project Update

Inaugural tweet of FISHES! An initiative weaving #genomics, #fisheries science + #Indigenous knowledge across northern Canada to address socio-economic challenges + opportunities related to #foodsecurity in commercial, recreational + subsistence fisheries. Funded by Genome Canada pic.twitter.com/WD6QiNu1Fh — FISHES (@IKGenFisheries) December 12,... More

Friday, January 31, 2020

FPA Voices: Research Takes Grad Students to the Arctic Circle

Last summer, graduate student Jamie Desautels travelled to Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, an Inuit hamlet on King William Island above the Arctic Circle. She was there to conduct focus groups on the importance of “country food” in Inuit culture and collect survey data on preferences and food consumption... More

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Nunavut News: High hopes for commercial char fishery in Gjoa Haven

As a test fishery in Gjoa Haven approaches its fifth and final year, James Qitsualik is envisioning a commercial enterprise for Arctic char that could surpass the operation at Kitikmeot Foods in Cambridge... More

Monday, August 1, 2016

Genome Canada: Inuit and their research partners seek a deeper understanding of Arctic marine species

For the people of Gjoa Haven, a hamlet of about 1,300 on the southeast coast of Nunavut’s King William Island, Arctic char are the foundation of a healthy diet. Harvested in lakes and rivers as well as the sea, the fish are plentiful and rich in vitamin D, important considerations in a remote northern... More

Monday, January 18, 2016

Nunatsiaq News: Multimillion-dollar Nunavut study to consider Gjoa Haven fishery

A group of southern researchers have partnered with hunters and fishers in Gjoa Haven to figure out whether it might be possible, or even desirable, to start up a local commercial fishery in the western Nunavut... More

Friday, July 24, 2015

CBC News: Ontario researchers launch $5.6M Nunavut fishery project

A new sustainable fishery project launched by researchers from two Ontario universities is trying to help solve the food crisis in Nunavut, as well as create new jobs and stimulate the... More

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Queen’s Gazette: Fishing for the future

A lack of affordable, nutritious food and uncertain employment opportunities in Nunavut have led to the creation of a new project headed by Queen’s University researchers Virginia Walker, Peter Van Coeverden de Groot, Stephen Lougheed, Carleton University researcher Stephen Schott and James Qitsualik and William Aglukkaq from Gjoa Haven... More

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