While the subsistence exploitation of polar bear, including the sale of hides as a by-product of traditional foods, has been a part of the Clyde River Inuit harvest system for at least the last century, sport hunting only began in 1987. The reasons for this were threefold. The first was the 1983 collapse of a market for sealskins [11] deprived Inuit hunters of a main source of money needed to purchase hunting equipment, fuel and ammunition. Secondly, the price of these imports was rapidly increasing. Last, wage employment opportunities were even more limited than is the case today.