B.C. First Nations say they were short-changed by feds in sockeye quota
“We didn’t meet our food and food security needs, which is so important because the fish only come every four years.”
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Ottawa studies risk of pathogen transfers to wild sockeye from fish farms
New research by Canada says there are minimal risks of farmed Atlantic salmon from B.C’s Discovery Islands transferring a deadly disease to wild sockeye.
Warriors burn bridge, demand mining company behind Mount Polley toxic spill leave territory
An Indigenous resistance group under the name of Secwepemc Ts’ka7 Warriors burned a bridge connected to a proposed British Columbia zinc and lead mine owned by the mining company now trying to clean up the Mount Polley environmental disaster, APTN National News has independently confirmed.
Aboriginal fishermen donate salmon to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
APTN National News Aboriginal fishermen from Vancouver Island are donating 500 sockeye salmon for the…
Aboriginal fishermen get small window to net sockeye
APTN National News The fishing industry along the Fraser River in British Columbia is in…
Little answers for disappearing Sockeye
British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen released his report this week on the collapse of the Fraser River Sockeye Salmon.
Haida company facing controversy over Pacific Ocean iron dust dump says it's "creating life"
The head of a Haida-owned company at the centre of an environmental controversy after its fishing boat dumped 100 tonnes of iron sulphite to seed the Pacific Ocean says the experiment is not a potential ecological disaster, but one that has “created life.”
Fraser River battle over sockeye salmon continues
It’s summer time and that means fishing season is open on the West Coast as the sockeye salmon return to the mighty Fraser River.
Tensions and arrests are on the rise on the Fraser River
APTN National News With sockeye salmon about to return to British Columbia’s Fraser River concern…