Unknown Greenland Sled Dog Pictured | Article Credit: Adrienne Murray, BBC News - Ilulissat, Greenland 
Climate change: Heat makes sled dogs ‘disappear’ from Greenland
Huge icebergs rise through the fog as Kaleeraq Mathaeussen pulls flounder out of the icy waters one by one.
“Fishing seasons aren’t what they used to be,” he says. The weather today is windier and more unpredictable.
More than 250 km inside the Arctic Circle, the coastal town of Ilulissat in western Greenland is also a busy port.
Kaleeraq has been fishing in the waters here since he was 14 years old and, like other locals, has seen changes around him.
In winter, he used to travel on the ice with a sled pulled by his dogs. But the sea no longer freezes like it used to.
“Since 2001, I’ve noticed that the winter seasons in Disko Bay don’t have as much ice anymore,” he says.
“I was very worried when I started to notice that the ice sheet was getting weaker and that I was seeing such a big change in the climate”, he explains.
“Today, it’s unpredictable and very dangerous to go fishing with my sled dogs,” he explains. He stopped using the sled two years ago and now only fishes from a boat.
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