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The sea off Ikaahuk (Sachs Harbour), Banks Island, deep blue under a summer sky, with the community on the shore.

Managed together, for the generations to come.

The Fisheries Joint Management Committee: Inuvialuit and Canada caring for the fish and marine mammals of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region since 1986.

Register to fish How co-management works

Ikaahuk (Sachs Harbour). Photo: Stephan Sprinz, CC BY 4.0

Six communities, six Hunters and Trappers Committees. Co-management with the Inuvialuit Game Council and Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Two Arctic char lying in a net on the stony beach at Ulukhaktok, with houses behind.
Arctic char, iqalukpik, in a net on the beach at Ulukhaktuuq (Ulukhaktok). Photo: Stephan Sprinz, CC BY 4.0.

Planning to fish in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region?

Everyone needs a GNWT sport fishing licence, validated for the ISR. The validation is free. To fish on Inuvialuit private lands, you must register your plans first, with the local HTC or here.

  1. RegisterTell us who you are and how to reach you.
  2. PlanWhere, when and what you hope to catch. About a month ahead is best.
  3. FishHave your plan validated at the local HTC office, then go fishing.
  4. ReportTell us what you caught, so the stocks can be looked after.
Register to fish Rules and closed waters

In summer, beluga gather in the Mackenzie River estuary.

Generations of Inuvialuit and their ancestors have managed and used the beluga that summer in the Canadian Beaufort Sea. FJMC calls beluga the most revered socio-cultural species to the Inuvialuit, and a cornerstone of the Inuvialuit diet.

Hunters and Trappers Committees, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the FJMC monitor the harvest together. Three areas of the estuary, Niaqunnaq, Okeevik and Kittigaryuit, form the Tarium Niryutait Marine Protected Area.

A white beluga surfacing, water streaming off its rounded head.
Beluga, qilalukkat in Inuvialuktun (plural). This photo was taken on the Churchill River, Hudson Bay. Photo: Ansgar Walk, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Inuvialuit knowledge and science, side by side.

The FJMC applies sound scientific and Indigenous knowledge to the fish and marine mammals of the ISR. Recent reports and plans, written with the communities:

Olokhaktomiut Observations of Bowhead Whales in Eastern Amundsen Gulf During WinterPDF

Technical Report 2026-01. Olokhaktomiut HTC, Lea and others.

Aklavik Inuvialuit Knowledge on Fishing for Dolly Varden from the Big Fish RiverPDF

Technical Report 2024-04. Aklavik HTC, Lea and others.

Ulukhaktok Iqalukpik Community Fisheries Management PlanPDF

2025. Arctic char, Ulukhaktok.

Paulatuk Ikalukpik Community Fisheries Management PlanPDF

2025. Arctic char, Paulatuk.

Interviews with the Inuvialuit Members of the 2018-2019 Beluga Tagging Field CrewPDF

Technical Report 2024-05. Worden and Elanik.

Harvest Data from the 2022 Beluga Subsistence Harvest Monitoring ProgramPDF

Technical Report 2024-03. Campbell and others, with all six HTCs.

All publications, plans and reports

An FJMC year.

Four regular meetings keep the committee in touch with the HTCs and with Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

AprilBudgets and research

Program budgets for the year ahead, and final research funding decisions.

JuneCommunity tour

The committee visits three ISR communities to meet each HTC. Their concerns shape next year's priorities.

September, OctoberHTC Presidents

Each HTC's concerns and priorities, gathered into the annual research priority list.

JanuaryWinnipeg

At DFO's Freshwater Institute: research presentations, short proposals and the MPA steering committee.

Meetings and news

Talk to us in Inuvik.

FJMC staff work out of the Joint Secretariat office.

Ulukhaktok seen from the bluff: a long shoreline of houses beside calm blue water.
Ulukhaktuuq (Ulukhaktok), Victoria Island, from the bluff. Photo: Stephan Sprinz, CC BY 4.0.