Positive Solutions to the Salmon Crisis
Over the past year, CCIRA focused on immediate action to minimize the negative impacts of the salmon crisis on Central Coast communities and work towards restoring salmon populations.
Fisheries
Fisheries Management for the Future
The landmark Fisheries Resources Reconciliation Agreement is a major step forward in co-governance and the future health of Central Coast fisheries.
Crab pilot project a positive step towards collaborative fisheries management
Together, the project partners conducted an extensive assessment of current crab science. This included the science our Nations have conducted within our territories that incorporates our Indigenous and local knowledge. This illustrates DFO’s willingness to accept Indigenous knowledge and Western science as complementary ways of knowing…
Science and our fishers agree: crab populations in trouble
As fishing pressure has increased in recent years and our Nations’ catches of Dungeness crab have declined, our people have become concerned about the state of this food resource in our territories. Our Watchmen have assembled the most comprehensive scientific dataset available on central coast crab…
