JANUARY 28, 2025, WSÁNEĆ, BC — The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has once again disregarded the traditional wisdom and inherent rights of First Nations. Despite a Declaration signed by six WSÁNEĆ Hereditary Chiefs in November 2024 demanding an immediate...
There is tonnes of news on Herring so let’s just begin. The DFO Data Summary published in July shows a poor spawn at Comox, Lazo and Hornby Island. There was no spawn at all in Baynes Sound. The bulk of the spawn was on the east coast of Denman, Mapleguard, Bowser and...
The urgent call by W̱SÁNEĆ Hereditary Chiefs for a moratorium on commercial herring fishing in the Salish Sea has sparked widespread media attention. News outlets across British Columbia, and even nationally, are highlighting this critical plea to protect herring...
The WSÁNEĆ Hereditary Chiefs have asked me to post their Pacific Herring Declaration in preparation for their November 13th stand against the commercial fisheries of Pacific Herring in the Salish Sea. Join them at Tulista Park, Sidney at 9:30 AM where they will read...
Join us on February 13 for HELIT TŦE SȽOṈ,ET (Let the Herring Live) – the 2nd annual Herring Symposium hosted by the W̱SÁNEĆ Hereditary Chiefs in partnership with the Herring Conservation and Restoration Society and University of Victoria Environmental Studies in...
