Vanishing sea ice creates whole new Arctic for both people and places
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Canadian Press] by Bob Weber - Dec 19, 2014
Frank Pokiak remembers long days on the land, camped at traditional hunting grounds under June's 24-hour sun, secure in the knowledge that sea ice would provide a safe highway back to his Tuktoyaktuk home.
Those days are gone.
"We used to stay out quite a while, eh,'' recalls Pokiak, a longtime Inuvialuit hunter. "We go hunting geese and ducks along the coast and after the snow melts on the ground we still have access via the ocean.
"We don't really do that any more. You can't stay out on the land as long. The ice is melting quicker.''
Last month, Arctic sea ice covered 630,000 square kilometres less ocean than the 30-year average. Sea ice extent is shrinking about five per cent a decade...
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