Introducing Uu-a-thluk’s Fisheries Technician

by Admin | Aug 3, 2017 | Featured Article, Tomorrow's Leaders, Training and Education

Coleton (Cole) Gomez-Leishman joins Uu-a-thluk this summer until the fall in his new role as a fisheries technician. Cole started with Uu-a-thluk two years ago as a fisheries intern in Uu-a-thluk’s Tommorrow’s Leaders program where he began to explore post-secondary...

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...

Two Summer Interns from Uu-a-thluk’s Tomorrow’s Leaders program Share Their Stories

by Admin | Jun 12, 2017 | Featured Article, Tomorrow's Leaders, Training and Education

Apcin hulth (Ahmber Barbosa) I was born into the Hesquiaht First Nation, and grew up learning our dances, songs, and customs. As a child my great grandparents, Yutl nauk and Tuupuat (Simon and Julia Lucas) would take me and my aunts to stay with them in Hot Springs...

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...

Mapping Project Advances Leadership and Stewardship Among Nuu-chah-nulth first Nations

by Admin | Jun 12, 2017 | Featured Article, Mapping, Training and Education

Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations have completed Marine Traditional Knowledge (MTK) mapping activities to record valuable Traditional Ecological Knowledge about areas that are important to Nuu-chah-nulth communities and culture. Over the course of the project Luc Bibeau...

Distinguished Pacific Salmon Conservation Award Goes to Dr. Don Hall, Uu-a-thluk Program Manager

by Admin | Mar 29, 2017 | Featured Article, News

Uu-a-thluk Fisheries Program Manager Don Hall has been named the 2017 recipient of the Larry Rutter Memorial Award in Pacific Salmon Conservation. Like Larry Rutter, Don became involved with the Pacific Salmon Commission (PSC) process with an understanding of the...