Along with this is the fact that the cash economic benefit of Clyde hunters retaining all 45 permits for their own use and selling the hides of this number of polar bears at international auction would return approximately $55,000–75,000 to the community, assuming all the hides offered were at least two and one-half meters in length and fetched $450.00 per meter (in the last several years, the price per foot [about one-third of a meter] of a full polar bear hide has peaked at $150.00). Were the whole quota to be sold at the recent peak price at auction, the return would be just slightly more than the sum entering Clyde River from three sport hunts. Thus, in “pure” economic terms, rationally the entire quota should be made available to sport hunting. That this has not happened suggests that money is not the only currency factored in HTO decisions about quota allocation and that the cultural return from retaining the majority of annual permits for Nammautaq members outweighs what otherwise seem to be the clear economic advantage that would accompany an increase in the sale of permit.