On its face, it may appear to be a contradiction to link Inuit subsistence and the polar bear trophy hunting. The same can also be said about the sale of polar bear hides at fur auction by Inuit, if money is the only currency by which to measure the value of a polar bear. However, the modern reality of the Inuit subsistence system, and of the mixed economy adaptation most Nunavummiut now practice, is that money is as much a required resource for hunting as is the time, energy and ecological knowledge that Inuit must apply whether they pursue ringed seals or polar bears. In Clyde River, as in every in every community that stages trophy hunting, the polar bear sport hunt provides a means for these Inuit who consider themselves full-time hunters to acquire important amounts of money. The importance of this to the overall subsistence system is that, as pointed out elsewhere [32] and [11], hunting requires prodigious amounts of time, and Inuit efforts to engage in regular wage work and daily hunting, basically to carry on two full-time jobs, are rarely successfully balanced.