Fisheries committee  Personally, I have an issue with the term “food, social, and ceremonial”. I find that to be a colonial term that was forced upon us. We were forced to accept it because of pressure from other sectors of the fishery that wanted to take more away from us than they already had. We h

Fisheries committee  Four tribes are considered Stó:lõ. The Tait, the Ch-ihl-kway-uhk, the Pilalt, and the Sumas are all part of the Stó:lõ. For ease of relationships, they're all dealt with collectively as a nation.

Fisheries committee  We've been in conflict with the fishery department and the fishing industry for well over a hundred years, since we've been stripped of the right to partake economically in the fishery. We've fought for it. Our community never did stop fighting, and a lot of our members never did

Fisheries committee  I don't know if there were any infractions by individuals, but we didn't authorize a fishery.

Fisheries committee  Yes. We didn't authorize a fishery for the Early Stuart sockeye this year. Our community didn't fish for their Early Stuart sockeye because the stocks were in jeopardy.

Fisheries committee  No.

Fisheries committee  I can't answer that. I don't know. I don't know how many charges will be laid for sure, but I know it's not very many. But they take time. I think the Department of Justice scrutinizes the information very carefully now, because usually we don't get much notification that we're

Fisheries committee  In terms of the relationship between our staff and the DFO staff, they were brought together down there to carry out a monitoring program. The DFO staff were validators, but they were also doing other studies, like scale samples, weighing and measuring fish, and determining the s

Fisheries committee  When you talk about the, I think, 97 individual bands that are located in the Fraser River reach, those 97 individual bands belong to probably eight tribal groups. They would generally come to agreements within their tribal groups, so you would only look at probably eight agreeme

Fisheries committee  On your original question on the source of confrontation over the gravel removal, by no means do I or a lot of members of our community and other communities within our nation feel our rightful place has been achieved within the fishery and within the other resources of B.C. The

Fisheries committee  I believe there was considerable pressure from the aggregate industry, but there was also considerable pressure to meet a budget that provides safety for the city of Chilliwack, which was basically built on a flat plain and is a high-risk area for flood. That is the main reason i