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...
by Admin | Oct 1, 2014 | Assessment and Monitoring, Featured Article
An Intern’s View of the Barkley Sound Test Fishery by Jared Dick After completing my third year at the University of Victoria, I am back as the Uu-a-thluk intern for my third consecutive summer. Like previous summers, this summer offers many different projects...
by Admin | Nov 5, 2013 | Assessment and Monitoring, Featured Article, News
Top photo courtesy of Michael McGee. Four years after its inception, a program designed to assess salmon stocks in the Burman River has revealed more fish than previously believed. The program uses mark-recapture estimates and radio tagging to count chinook salmon in...
