Subsistence Hunt · Polar Bear Meat

Nanoq (Polar Bear)

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Hunters never eat the liver at all — it stores enough vitamin A to be dangerous, so only the meat is used for food.

Polar bear meat is cut into steaks or added to stews, prepared much like other game meat, and remains part of the subsistence diet in isolated East Greenland communities where strict quotas limit each year's hunt. It isn't sold commercially or served to tourists, but it stays a documented part of Tasiilaq-area food culture.

Why it's made this way: In East Greenland's Tasiilaq district, where farming is impossible and even reindeer and muskox don't range, polar bear has long been one of the few large land animals subsistence hunters could rely on, now tightly regulated by quotas introduced in 2006.