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Rivière-Marralik
TERRITORIAL RESERVE FOR PROTECTED AREA PURPOSES
The Rivière-Marralik territorial reserve for protected area purposes (Réserve de territoire aux fins d’aire protégée de la Rivière-Marralik) and its expanded area protect land essential to the traditional and subsistence activities of Nunavik Inuit, including fishing. They protect the entire Marralik River and are also within the range of the George River migratory caribou herd.
Characteristics
Land Category – JBNQA and NEQA
Categories II and III
Main conservation objectives
To protect an essential subsistence area for Inuit communities, where they harvest Arctic char, salmon, and fur-bearing animals.
Geological province
New Quebec Orogen (Churchill Province)
Natural region
Rivière à la Baleine Lowlands
Bioclimatic domain
Forest tundra, open-canopy forest (spruce stands and lichens), Low Arctic Ecozone
Wildlife
Arctic char, salmon, fur-bearing animals, beluga whale sanctuary at the mouth of the Marralik River (1986), George River caribou herd
Hydrology
Marralik River
Archaeological sites
No sites listed in the inventory of archeological sites of Quebec (Inventaire des sites archéologiques du Québec (ISAQ)).
Fact sheet — MELCC
- https://www.environnement.gouv.qc.ca/biodiversite/reserves-territoires/nunavik/riviere-marralik-en.htm