If the provincial government hadn’t announced the halt, the Labrador caribou hunt would have begun on August 10. The provincial government has told that it wants to have a closer look at the George River before allowing the caribou hunt to start.
The halt was announced on Aug 2, 2011.
The annual caribou hunting in Labrador has been postponed because of the rate by which they are dying off.
Last year’s census of caribou in the George River showed that the numbers dropped by as much as 81 percent in 9-year from 2001 to 2010.
The population of the George River herd was 385,000 in 2001. The number reduced to 74,000 when counted in July of 2010.
