My sister married an Eskimo. His mom still lives a subsistence lifestyle. That’s how I today have my two eskimos, niece and nephew.
There is still plenty flow ice. They use to get $15g to guide a polar bear hunt. Now it’s $1500. They still do it you can to. They still hunt the same amount but the perception of killing the last bear has ruined the market. They would much rather hunt to harvest instead of having to shoot them when digging threw trash dump or when they try and break in the house. The people that know the least and care the most cause the most problems.
A friend stayed in AK. a while.
In an area where some folks got squirrely with lack of sun at times and as he put it , jumped out windows..
Anyways , he didn't like the season when bear were staging awaiting better access to pack ice and hanging around people. And naturally pursuing human created scents and conditions of potential food sources of garbage or whatever.
Eskimo's are humans .And as such can vary in perspectives.
Time and again though respect for wildlife shows up.
Like leaving caribou alone in one area where they calve. As it is thier place to do so and to be left alone for good reason to establish recruits to the herd. And of course for the sake of the herd having "a place" of it's own. A place they "come from".
Within the respect of resources being finite , there remains benefit to hunts for bear. Muskox , Boo , ect..Well within reasonable numbers of course.
Let those who depend on the resource manage it. In a manner that in the process ensures the resources future. Sometimes , that future relates to hunting dollars. By assigning value to existing stock.
Africa has demonstrated such.
Where hunting creates better value to the resource and community by being within habitat capacity and age structure of a herd , exploitation through poaching indiscriminately can be reduced and or thwarted.
Crop depredation vs a villages control of animals is another case.
When legal hunting increases a villages well being better than poaching , where is the greater value?
He kept waiting to encounter one in the dark.
