Calls for mandatory measures to reduce underwater noise pollution as melting ice opens up shipping routes
For centuries, narwhals and ringed seals have provided food for Inuit communities on the ice floes of Mittimatalik, or Pond Inlet, on northern Canada’s Baffin Island. But now, the Inuit – who have hunted, trapped and fished in the region since long before the Hudson Bay Company opened its first Arctic trading camp here in 1921 – say they no longer find the narwhals where they should be. They say shipping noise is to blame.
Local children stand on the shore as the Coast Guard ship Des Groseilliers sits in the waters near the Arctic community of Pond Inlet, NunavutThis week, the ICC, a body representing 180,000 Inuit in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Chukotka in Although the Inuit depend on shipping for essential goods and services, they want to ensure ships have a low impact on theenvironment, which is sensitive to underwater noise as well as other pollution, Koperqualuk said.
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