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By Daron Letts, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunatsiaq News There will be \u201cmaktaaq everywhere\u201d on Iqaluit\u2019s shore on Aug. 14 if members of the Amaruq Hunters and Trappers Association manage to catch their first bowhead in four years. An unidentified member of the Amaruq Hunters and Trappers Association prepares whale meat following a hunt of a bowhead whale near Iqaluit in August 2022. The association is planning another bowhead hunt next week. (Photo by Bill Williams, Special to Nunatsiaq News) Twenty-four hunters of all ages are set to take part in the hunt next week. \u201cWe have lots of people involved \u2014 a lot of young people,\u201d said Naulaq Inookie, chair of the association\u2019s qalugiaq planning committee, which is co-ordinating the hunt. The last bowhead hunt in Iqaluit was in… <\/p>\n

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By Daron Letts, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunatsiaq News There will be \u201cmaktaaq everywhere\u201d on Iqaluit\u2019s shore on Aug. 14 if members of the Amaruq Hunters and Trappers Association manage to catch their first bowhead in four years. An unidentified member of the Amaruq Hunters and Trappers Association prepares whale meat following a hunt of a bowhead whale near Iqaluit in August 2022. The association is planning another bowhead hunt next week. (Photo by Bill Williams, Special to Nunatsiaq News) Twenty-four hunters of all ages are set to take part in the hunt next week. \u201cWe have lots of people involved \u2014 a lot of young people,\u201d said Naulaq Inookie, chair of the association\u2019s qalugiaq planning committee, which is co-ordinating the hunt. The last bowhead hunt in Iqaluit was in... <\/p>\n

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