Edvard SAMUELSEN - Hunter and fisherman -

Ukkusissat - Latitude 71 02 NR - Longitude 051 53 W

250 inhabitants

Interviewed in July 2009

The biggest change that we observe in our region is the wind. Between January and February, we have a strong warm wind from the east, which didn’t exist before. It’s a relatively recent arrival, from 2003/2004. It makes the use of the dog sled difficult – even impossible, because this warm wind removes the snow from the pack ice. The dogs can’t run on the ice, nor can they relieve their thirst with the snow, as they usually do. Here, in normal times, we have the pack ice from January until the end of May or the beginning of June. There are less seals, as they use the snow to give birth. Hunting seals originally took place on the ice, but now, with the short season of the ice, we mainly hunt them from boats.