Assessment and Monitoring

All Eyes on Muchalat Inlet for a Mixed Stock Fishery

by Admin | Mar 26, 2018 | Assessment and Monitoring, Featured Article, Fishing Rights, Training and Education

Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation (MMFN) is in the early stages of working with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) on an expanded demonstration fishery in Muchalat Inlet. The fishery will target Gold and Burman River Chinook salmon in late summer, and...

Ahousaht First Nation Guardian Program: Increasing Capacity and Reviving Traditional Knowledge

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...

Determining Priorities for ?usmit (Herring) in Nuu-chah-nulth Ha-ha-houlthee (chiefly territories)

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...

Study of Summer and Winter Run Steelhead Distributions in the Somass, Ash and Stamp Rivers

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...

Kennedy River Sockeye Enumeration Project Learns Valuable Lessons

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...

Smolt Assessment Aims to Understand Threats to WCVI Chinook

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...