by Admin | Mar 26, 2018 | Assessment and Monitoring, Featured Article
In March 2017, the Government of Canada recognized the value of Guardian Watchmen programs by earmarking $25 million over five years for them in the federal budget. A 2016 study (Analysis of the Current and Future Value of Indigenous Guardian Work in Canada’s...
by Admin | Jan 8, 2018 | Assessment and Monitoring, Featured Article
At the Council of Ha’wiih Forum on Fisheries that was held in Tseshaht First Nation Ha-houlthee last fall, the Ha’wiih agreed that only food and ceremonial fisheries would take place for a period of up to four years or until there is agreement between Nuu-chah-nulth...
by Admin | Jul 31, 2017 | Assessment and Monitoring, Featured Article
This is the first instalment of a special summer series focusing on a research project in Nuu-chah-nulth Ha-ha-houlthee. This and other research-based projects help further the objectives of Uu-a-thluk and Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations to manage our aquatic resources...
by Admin | Jun 12, 2017 | Assessment and Monitoring, Featured Article
Located in Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation Ha-houlthee (chiefly territory), the Kennedy River flows into Kennedy Lake—the largest lake on Vancouver Island. Once, Kennedy Lake was the leading sockeye producer on the Island’s west coast with returns from 300,000 to one...
by Admin | Feb 20, 2017 | Assessment and Monitoring, Featured Article
Mountain Range and emptying into Bedwell Sound to the north of Meares Island, the Bedwell River or Oinimitis, its original Nuu-chah-nulth name, is the subject of a juvenile salmon assessment led by Ahousaht First Nation and funded under the Aboriginal Fund for Species...
by Admin | Feb 20, 2017 | Assessment and Monitoring, Featured Article, Fishing Rights
This year the Nations’ fisheries managers, technicians, Nuu-chah-nulth fishers, and community members remain concerned that WCVI herring stocks are not sufficiently rebuilt to allow commercial fishing. “There’s some indication that the west coast of Vancouver Island...
