Skeena closed to fishing

[Mark Kranhold]

The Skeena and tributaries will be closed to fishing in regards to the Gitxsan treaty society over land rights .
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/skeena-river-caught-up-in-land-rights-claim-by-gitxsan-treaty-society/article19582924/

[briansII]

Besides this being terrible news, didn't I read somewhere you had a trip to the Kispiox. Wouldn't this impact your trip?

briansII

[Alosa]

Wow. Interested to see where this is headed....

[Darian]

Interesting.... Since the article notes that permission to fish & hun were never requested/granted (the real issue), it sounds a lot like there'll be a new license to obtain from the first nations people. Hopefully, the fee won't be outrageous.

[TaylerW]

Good luck enforcing that!

[STEELIES/26c3]

boycott and fish elsewhere...

[winxp_man]

These damn engines learning the Capitolist way :) this is the same (if they decide to charge a fee for a special permit) like the farmers here in CA asking for an average of $400 to hunt boar on their lands. Maybe not $400 for a trips or a year permit but still a way to make more money.

[Dan LeCount]

I think this is a mixture of different things going on. Part of it is; the First Nations are trying to show an established history of rights for the lands involved to limit future resource extraction and consequential pollution by large multinationals.

The other part is they're trying to put a little money in the pocket from licensing revenue.

Based on the Europeans treatment of this continent for the past 500 years vs the indigenous peoples symbiotic relationship with the land for the last 10,000 years, I think they can revoke our rights to the property as much as they want. We've wasted our chance and haven't shown we truly value the land and her many gifts like they did.