Agenda for February 13, 2025 8:30 – 9:15 Arrival and Refreshment Adam Olsen MC calling everyone at 9:10. Please arrive early topark, register, refresh and be seated for a 9:15 start. 9:15 – 10:00 W̱SÁNEĆ Welcome W̱SÁNEĆ drummers WEC’KINEM Eric Pelkey on behalf...
First Nations, environmental organizations, and scientists are gathering to discuss the restoration of the Salish Sea’s distinct herring populations and collaborate on strategies to bring vitality back to communities for whom herring was a foundational species....
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...
