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...

Working Toward a Consensus-based Approach to Managing Herring

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...

Uu-a-thluk Mapping Project Engages Youth in Stories on the Past and Future

by Admin | Dec 13, 2016 | Featured Article, News, Tomorrow's Leaders, Training and Education

In decades past, Nuu-chah-nulth elders would exchange knowledge with youth in their Ha-ha-houlthee (chiefly territories) about ceremonial and other cultural practices, and Nuu-chah-nulth ways related to fishing and harvesting sea resources. This year, elders and youth...

Two New Interns Join Uu-a-thluk’s Internship Program, Tomorrow’s Leaders

by Admin | Dec 13, 2016 | Featured Article, Training and Education

Since joining Uu-a-thluk in October 2016, interns Lesley Lauder and Erikk Dick-Frank have collectively performed simulated rescues in moving water; begun developing work plans using the Quu-us approach, and have plans to conduct crab surveys with Ditidaht soon. Lesley...

Recognizing Our Sponsors: Uu-a-thluk Science Camps 2016

by Admin | Dec 12, 2016 | Featured Article, Training and Education

There’s an old proverb that it takes a village to raise a child. This summer’s Uu-a-thluk Science Camps brought that message home as children ages 8-12, elders, and youth participated in science- and knowledge-based learning in Nuu-chah-nulth communities, with several...

Nuu-chah-nulth Principles Alive Today with Rights-Based T’aaq-wiihak Fishery

by Admin | Aug 16, 2016 | Featured Article, Fishing Rights

For thousands of years Nuu-chah-nulth stories have taught about interrelationships between humans, plants, and animals based on the principle hishukish ts’awalk (Everything is one; everything is connected). This Nuu-chah-nulth value also ties in to ?iisaak which...