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agreed the hunt should end. Despite this, hunting of Haida Gwaii black bears continues, albeit under a limited entry form where just four individual bears are allowed to be harvested per year.
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of bears within the archipelago, stating that the killing was wasteful and went against Haida ethics. In 2005, both the council and the
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