On Friday leaders from the Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw First Nation in Canada announced a plan to administer their own fisheries and aquaculture licensing regime "with or without the Canadian government."
The First Nation said it made the decision because of a failure of the Canadian government "to conserve their fish stocks through permitting of overfishing and adequately mitigate impacts from resource development."
“Rural communities and their people need stable, family-supporting jobs to stay and support British Columbia and Canada in supplying healthy seafood to a growing world population,” said Hereditary Chief Paddy Walkus of the Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw Nation.
