Fisheries committee  Thanks, everyone. Take care.

Fisheries committee  We have the [Technical difficulty—Editor].

Fisheries committee  It's twofold. One is managing ourselves around the guardian program. We had our own citizens trained to be guardians to hold—

Fisheries committee  No, the funding ran out, and it's all proposal-based now.

Fisheries committee  It was from the early nineties up until the late nineties or early 2000s, and from then on it's been purely DFO.

Fisheries committee  In that component of management, it's about managing and monitoring the access during fisheries. In the nineties there was still abundance—not as much as there was in the seventies and eighties, but still lots for us, for recreational, for sport and for commercial fishing. We we

Fisheries committee  When we were managing the resources, if one of our members was caught fishing out of licence times, we'd go in there and look at him and see that he was in complete poverty and his family was in complete poverty, so it was an absolute sustenance fishery. Then, rather than takin

Fisheries committee  I'd encourage everyone not to look at it so much as implementing the declaration as a whole. I'll draw your attention to this. Let's implement article 18, for example, which is our right to be involved in decision-making that affects our rights, and article 19, which is about see

Fisheries committee  I will respond in the context of Bill C-15. Quite often we're educating everybody, including commercial and recreational fishers, on our rights, for example, regarding Sparrow. The federal government should be assisting us in that role, because if it's first nations standing alon

Fisheries committee  Three things jump to mind in response to that. First, implement Sparrow. What I mean by this is that in the Lower Fraser, we typically go after what's called “early timed” chinook. The way DFO manages the fishery is that they allow the marine recreational sector to get their fu

Fisheries committee  In support of us as rights holders being more involved, we do have existing mechanisms that DFO chooses not to empower. For example, we have 74 communities signed on with the Fraser Salmon Management Council. From there, we have set up the Fraser Salmon Management Board, in par

Fisheries committee  Thanks for the question. First, we're extremely dissatisfied that the government originally committed to begin removing fish farms by September 30 as per Cohen and at the very last minute came up with an airy-fairy decision to allow them to stay there and then shoot for another

Fisheries committee  [Witness spoke in Halkomelem] [English] Thank you for the opportunity to share here. I ask the interpreters to excuse me, as I don't have prepared notes to share with them. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the Standing Committee. In preparing to do that, I could