Work with RRDC and community to develop registration hunt proposal:
a) for public safety
b) to control harvest pressure

Several areas adjacent to the North Canol Road (e.g. Dragon and Sheldon lakes) are known to be dangerous to public safety due to hunting activities. Problems here would not be adequately addressed by a public safety no-hunting corridor on the North Canol Road. Based on similar solutions elsewhere in the Yukon, the areas could be proposed for hunting limited by a registration/permit system.

In places where harvest pressure or potential for excessive harvest occur, registration hunts were discussed as a tool to be used to ensure hunter numbers and harvest are not excessive. A registration hunt has been in use in the White River area due to the Aishihik hunting closure. A limited number of licenses are given out on a weekly basis for a winter caribou hunt. For the first few years, permits were issued only from Haines Junction but last year extra ones were issued from Whitehorse as well. Registration hunts do not necessarily affect First Nations hunters, however, can be an effective tool to promote resource sharing should harvest limits be required.

Such proposals can be presented to the YFWMB for public review and recommendation to the Minister of Renewable Resources. In the absence of a Renewable Resources Council in Ross River, the YFWMB would work with members of the Ross River community in developing the proposal.