by Admin | Mar 25, 2020 | Assessment and Monitoring, Featured Article
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...
by Admin | Feb 28, 2020 | Featured Article, News
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...
by Admin | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured Article, News
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...
by Admin | Dec 13, 2019 | Featured Article, News
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...
by Admin | Dec 6, 2019 | Assessment and Monitoring, Featured Article
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...
by Admin | Oct 11, 2019 | Featured Article, Training and Education
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...