Indigenous sale of moose meat a murky territory, regardless of courtroom ruling

[silverfoxdj]

This figure and method is laughable, sounds just like the Liberal way of gauging public opinion on firearms policy where they head on over to the CBC article comments or read a letter from 'Crazy Cukier' and accept it as fact.

It's Wikipedia if it's not close to fact you can agree with comment on it directly

 

[heliace]

Go back and read that link. Esp the bit where is quotes a couple guys who call the high numbers questionable.

Note also that the vast majority of those populations appear to be placed in the warm bits of Central America and the extreme South of North America. "The Americas" = all three continents.

Probably more relevant is "The aboriginal population of Canada during the late 15th century is estimated to have been between 200,000[10] and two million,[11] with a figure of 500,000 currently accepted by Canada's Royal Commission on Aboriginal Health."

That's not very many people spread over a very large area, and, like as not, the largest numbers, were in areas capable of supporting their feeding year around, either the East or the West coasts. There simply never was the food density to support any huge numbers elsewhere.

Like so many things, the predator/prey relationship plays out, and if you become too efficient a predator, you run out of prey really quickly and either starve or move on.
Or, as happened in my area, a rockslide shuts off the salmon run, and starves out the populace, and the area remains essentially empty, for a period of several hundred years while the stocks recover.

In this case, it certainly does not bode well for the game populations.

Thank you. Much more intelligent than myself. I did, in retrospect, exaggerate a bit concerning population numbers, but, this was not really my point. My point is, traditions be damned, we have too many people consuming too little resources and claiming that traditions meant using 30-06's, nylon fishing nets, snowmobiles, aluminum boats and Honda 4 wheelers is COMPLETELY ridiculous!!

 

[silverfoxdj]

Thank you. Much more intelligent than myself. I did, in retrospect, exaggerate a bit concerning population numbers, but, this was not really my point. My point is, traditions be damned, we have too many people consuming too little resources and claiming that traditions meant using 30-06's, nylon fishing nets, snowmobiles, aluminum boats and Honda 4 wheelers is COMPLETELY ridiculous!!

I understood where you were going with it and fully agree

 

[Magellann]

As our population keeps on increasing I think the problem will only get worse.

 

[silverfoxdj]

Agreed

 

[turbo_bird]

As our population keeps on increasing I think the problem will only get worse.

That goes for the whole world. We only have to look at the high birthrates in third world countries where we are sending all kinds of aid to reduce the mortality rate. We send money and resources to ostensibly raise their standard of living to meet ours, but there aren't enough resources in the world for everyone to live like we do. The logical conclusion of it is that our standard of living is going to be eventually lowered to match that of the rest of the world. And people here in Canada think they have it bad now.
Kristian