Guardian Watchmen Essential for MaPP
The Heiltsuk are not the only Nation humming with activity from their Guardian Watchmen. With funding from the Central Coast Marine Planning Partnership process (MaPP), each central coast Nation…
Author: CCIRA
Crab Research Shows Impact of Fisheries in our Territories
Our Nations have completed the first major study of Dungeness crab on the central coast and the results are clear: commercial and recreational fishing can have a negative impact on crab populations and our food fisheries…
New Hope for Herring
Over the past two years the herring fishery on the central coast has been a source of controversy. Disagreements between our Nations and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) have led to peaceful but persistent conflicts…
Rockfish and Lingcod Research
Using a combination of traditional knowledge and science we are compiling the most comprehensive dataset to date for central coast rockfish.
Saving Eulachon
It is hard to overstate the importance of eulachon to Central Coast First Nations. For millennia our people have worked together each spring to harvest this critical resource, whose grease has sustained us nutritionally and has been a valuable trade commodity and medicine.
