Publications
Ocean Knowledge Cards highlight 36 species of sea life found along Vancouver Island’s west coast. Bring a deck with you the next time you go to the seashore.
Photo Gallery
A sneak peek into the many activities Uu-a-thluk takes part in, from steam pits to mending fish fences, to presenting to youth about fisheries related careers.
Videos
Safeguarding Our Seafood is a project to help determine the safety of Nuu-chah-nulth seafood following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident.
Good news for groundfish: BC Outside Yelloweye and Bocaccio Rockfish populations rebuilding
Over the next few years, Nuu-chah-nulth economic and food, social and ceremonial (FSC) fisheries, as well as the commercial and recreational fishing sector, will be benefiting from the rebuilding of two rockfish species found in BC: Outside Yelloweye (Yelloweye along...
Nuu-chah-nulth Nations and Area G working to secure PST Mitigation funds
Representatives from Nuu-chah-nulth Nations and the Area G commercial troll fleet are working together to ensure the remaining funds from the Pacific Salmon Treaty (PST) Chinook Mitigation Program are directed to West Coast Vancouver Island (WCVI) fishers and...
Nuu-chah-nulth Nations Participate in Marine Protected Area Co-Governance Workshop
Nuu-chah-nulth Nation representatives are working with delegates from a number of Pacific coast First Nations in an effort to strengthen one another’s co-governance negotiations with Crown agencies on proposed Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in the Nations’ traditional...
Nuu-chah-nulth Nations and DFO work towards modernizing the west coast Vancouver Island clam fishery
According to ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, change is the only constant in life, and in the case of the west coast Vancouver Island (WCVI) intertidal clam fishery, there is an abundance of change in the works. Nuu-chah-nulth Nations and Fisheries and Oceans...
Beyond the Burman: the continuation of a decade-long effort to improve west coast Vancouver Island sac?up escapement estimates
Uu-a-thluk technical staff are building on the success of Roger Dunlop’s Burman River sac?up (Chinook salmon that have reached freshwater) spawning escapement estimate project by expanding his assessment method into the Conuma and Tranquil Rivers, while continuing to...
Scholarship provides Nuu-chah-nulth fisheries manager with oceans governance training
Approximately two months, 9000 kilometres and 100 lectures later, Kadin Snook, Fisheries Manager for Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation (MMFN), is now versed in the law of the sea thanks to a scholarship provided by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). Capacity building...