Kwikwasut’inuxw/Haxwa’mis First Nations media release: Judicial Review – DFO...
The Kwikwasut’inuxw/Haxwa’mis First Nations media release Judicial Review – DFO Salmon Aquaculture Licenses announces that the Kwikwasut’inuxw/Haxwa’mis First Nations (Kwicksutaineuk Ah-Kwa-Mish) have...
View ArticleSalmon Leaks Part 2: Additional Highlights from 2010
Early on in the sockeye inquiry it became clear to lawyers, judge Cohen and participants (including Watershed Watch) that the quantities of confidential documents and data flowing through the process...
View ArticleGlobe and Mail article: Cohen inquiry panel debates aboriginal fishing practices
The Globe and Mail article Cohen inquiry panel debates aboriginal fishing practices provides an overview of discussions at Tuesday’s Cohen Inquiry hearings examining aboriginal fishing and the...
View ArticleNew Video from the Common Sense Canadian: Musgamagw Unite in Response to...
The latest video from the Common Sense Canadian shows the response of the Musgamagw-Tsawataineuk peoples of the Broughton Archipelago to a recent breach in protocol by Marine Harvest Canada where the...
View ArticleLake Babine Nation and SkeenaWild Media Release: Lake Babine First Nation...
For Immediate Release – From Lake Babine Nation and SkeenaWild Conservation Trust August 25, 2011 (Burns Lake) – Yesterday’s opening of a smokehouse in the community of Tachet on the shores of Babine...
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Salmon Leaks Part 12: Habitat in the Marine Environment and Aboriginal Fishing
The Cohen Commission approached the three-quarter mark in terms of days in hearing and turned to a new topic—Habitat in the Marine Environment, which included testimony from DFO and non-DFO scientists....
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Banner Year for Selective Fisheries
The days are growing shorter, the leaves are falling to the ground, and the final salmon runs of 2011 are making their way onto the spawning grounds. For reasons both good and bad, 2011 was a...
View ArticleBC Living article: Lake Babine Nation Brings Sustainable Salmon to Vancouver...
BC Living highlights the revival of a sustainable salmon fishery by the Lake Babine Nation in the article Lake Babine Nation Brings Sustainable Salmon to Vancouver Businesses. The article includes:...
View ArticleVancouver Sun: Discovery of bones at B.C. lake resurrects one of darkest...
The powerful article Discovery of bones at B.C. lake resurrects one of darkest tales in Canadian history, by Stephen Hume in the Vancouver Sun tells the story of the devastation of the Carrier People...
View ArticleGlobe and Mail: First nations appointments to Pacific Salmon Commission not...
The Globe and Mail article First nations appointments to Pacific Salmon Commission not renewed reports that “The federal government has allowed the only two first nations appointments to a Canada-U.S....
View ArticleFirst Nation outraged by permit allowing Mount Polley tailing release
Watershed Watch shares the concerns of the Secwepemc Nation about the release of Mount Polley’s mine tailings effluent into Lake Quesnel. Earlier this year The Independent Review Panel’s report...
View ArticleWatershed Watch Sends Letter to Minister in Support of Fish Farm Occupations
Watershed Watch Salmon Society sent this open letter today to Minister Dominic LeBlanc in support of the peaceful occupation of fish farms by the Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw, Namgis and Mamalilikulla First...
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