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- Title
NEGOTIATING TEK IN BC SALMON FARMING: Learning from Each Other or Managing Tradition and Eliminating Contention?
- Authors
Schreiber, Dorothee; Newell, Dianne
- Abstract
The article focuses on an agreement between the Ahousaht, Nuu-chah-nulth Indians of British Columbia (BC), and BC-based fishing company Pacific National Aquaculture, which allowed the later to use Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Indians to practice salmon farming at Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island. The Indians had been concerned about the impact of salmon farms on their local environment. However, they agreed to the presence of salmons farm in exchange for the recognition of their hereditary chief and their territory.
- Subjects
CLAYOQUOT Sound (B.C.); VANCOUVER Island (B.C.); BRITISH Columbia; TRADITIONAL ecological knowledge; NOOTKA (North American people); PACIFIC National Aquaculture (Company); CONTRACTS; SALMON farming; NATIVE Americans; AQUACULTURE &; the environment
- Publication
BC Studies, 2006, Issue 150, p79
- ISSN
0005-2949
- Publication type
Article