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Nuu-chah-nulth Lose Bid to Stop Commercial Fishing of Dwindling Herring Stocks
A plan to stop the commercial herring fishery off the west coast of Vancouver Island this year has failed.
Five Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations had appealed to a federal court to stop the fishery because they believe the stocks are in danger of collapse. Nuu-chah-nulth biologists, elders and commercial fishermen told the court that herring stocks have been low for the past decade, and requests for a fishing moratorium made to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has fallen on deaf ears.
DFO ‘fudging the numbers,’ court finds; bars commercial fishery off Vancouver Island
Zoe Tennant, The Globe and Mail, March 9, 2014