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Animals, Indigenous Nations, Rivers & Oceans

wild salmon flotilla Protests surrounding fish farms

By Melissa Renwick, Ha-Shilth-Sa, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Tofino, BC – Under dark, stormy skies, dozens of boaters and kayakers gathered in the Tofino Inlet this past Saturday for a wild salmon flotilla in protest of the surrounding fish farms.

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Indigenous Nations, Rivers & Oceans

First Nations Call Canadian Government Fishing Practises Discriminatory

Campbell River Mirror, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Five western Vancouver Island First Nations have called on the federal government to take “meaningful action” and “redirect” surplus allocation of chinook salmon to their communities. 

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