qathet Living, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
It’s been a century since sockeye and chum have spawned in Unwin Lake. That’s because the creek between Desolation Sound and Unwin was dammed for logging.
Now, Tla’amin Nation’s new lands and resources director, Denise Smith, is spearheading a project to reintroduce the salmon.
Continue reading Dammed for 100 yearsqathet Living, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Each year since the Tla’amin salmon hatchery was built in 1977, members of the Nation have received an allotment of food fish.
The food fish program uses salmon that pass through the hatchery, explains Tla’amin hatchery technician Scott Galligos.
The amount of food fish Tla’amin receives is determined by Tla’amin’s final agreement treaty with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and is based on percentage, fish type, and population.
Continue reading Food fishery flounders: low returnsqathet Living, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
It was a stormy October night in 2014, when a massive flash flood raged over the Tla’amin salmon hatchery.
Logs, leaves and mud clogged the hatchery river fencing. The river overflowed into the protected area. “It was actually very similar to the downpour we received just a few weeks ago,” says Scott Galligos, a Tla’amin hatchery technician. “The flood itself lasted just about 48 hours. There was a lot of salmon escapement.”
Continue reading 2014’s weather was even weirder than 2021’s, in this coastal BC townthe Discourse, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
It’s been a welcome sight for millennia for the Tla’amin Nation — every year in March or April, the waters would turn milky white as the herring sperm fertilized eggs and attached to algae beds of kelp and eelgrass, says Chileneh Scott Galligos, a fisheries technician with Tla’amin.
Continue reading Tla’amin Nation welcomes return of herring spawn
