FIRST NATIONS FISHERIES COUNCIL

SUPPORTING STEWARDSHIP OF FISHERIES RESOURCES

FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS

News Release

“Canadians cannot depend on a Judicial Inquiry to bring back B.C. salmon” the First Nations Fisheries Council of British Columbia tells Ottawa

For Immediate Release

November 13, 2009

The Tyee, 21st September 2009

DFO named in aquaculture class action suit

By Colleen Kimmett

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has been drawn into what could be a precedent-setting case for aboriginal rights in British Columbia.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DECEMBER 17, 2009

From bclocalnews.com

By Jeff Nagel

Published September 18, 2009

Thousands of B.C. residents joined forces Saturday to rail against the planned Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) and crank up the pressure on the provincial government to abandon it.

A noon-hour rally led by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm was held outside the Vancouver Convention Centre in front of more than 3,000 raucous protesters.

Terms of Reference for the Commission of Inquiry into Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River
6 November 2009
Ottawa, Ontario

Whereas the decline in sockeye salmon stocks in the Fraser River in British Columbia has necessitated the closure of the fishery for a third consecutive year, despite favourable pre-season estimates of the number of sockeye salmon expected to return to the Fraser River;

40,000 fish escape farm

Gillnetters near Sointula report catching Atlantic salmon
By Judith Lavoie, Times ColonistOctober 24, 2009

A recovery vessel working for a fish-farming company recovered about 1,100 escaped Atlantic salmon yesterday, and will continue working over the weekend to catch more of the estimated 40,000 escaped fish.

The salmon got out late Wednesday evening after crews, using a pump system and pipe, removed dead fish from the two pens at Port Elizabeth on Gilford Island, said Clare Backman, director of environmental relations for Marine Harvest Canada.

http://www.cohencommission.ca/en/

BY ANDREW A. DUFFY, CANWEST NEWS SERVICE

The implementation of a 12-per-cent harmonized sales tax in B.C. next summer will cost the tourism industry as many as 5,174 jobs and see visitor spending drop by as much as $545 million annually, according to an analysis of the tax's impact prepared by the Council of Tourism Associations.

Burnaby Now, 18th November 2009

Plenty of questions to answer in fish inquiry

Finally a Canadian prime minister is doing what none of his predecessors had the guts to do: Ask why Fraser River sockeye are going the way of the Atlantic cod.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday the federal government will convene a judicial inquiry to investigate the disappearance of millions of sockeye salmon from B.C.'s Fraser River fishery.