A joint proposal submitted by the Tlowitsis First Nation and Grieg for a new salmon farm in British Columbia marks the first time that a salmon farm's water lot lease and license will belong to the Tlowitsis.

"Grieg will be allowed to grow Atlantic salmon and pay us a stipend for being in the water lot lease," Thomas Smith, councilor for the Tlowitsis Nation on East Vancouver Island in British Columbia, told IntraFish. "It's all within our traditional territory."

Its also the first time Grieg Seafood British Columbia will be contracted to grow salmon on a license owned by a First Nation partner.