Fishers with five nations on the British Columbia coast will harvest with allocations from their own fisheries plans, says Ha’wiih, the hereditary leadership of five Nuu-chah-nulth Nations.
“Our Ha’wiih, in their authority over the lands and waters, issued licenses to the fishermen,” says Kekinusuqs, Judith Sayers, president of Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council.
On Aug. 4, they adopted the fisheries plan that they had in place and authorized the fishermen to go out and fish.
Twenty-five boats were out fishing, she says.
The five nations “will no longer stand by, as our fishers remain tied to our docks, while non-Indigenous users benefit from the resources of our traditional territories,” says the press release from Ha’oom Fisheries Society.
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