Case History of the Skeena Fisheries Commission: Developing Aboriginal Fishery Management Capacity in

• Main Authors: Northern British Columbia, Allen Gottesfeld, Chris Barnes, Cristina Soto
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Gitanyow; Pacific; Skeena; Skeena River; First Nations; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.465.6508; http://skeenafisheries.ca/pdfs/pub_gottesfeld_etal_2009_casehist.pdf

Abstract.—Pacific salmon are important to the First Nations of the Skeena River wa-tershed in British Columbia. The Skeena Fisheries Commission (SFC) was formed in 1985 through a memorandum of understanding between the watershed’s five First Nations: Tsimshian, Gitxsan, Gitanyow, Wet’suwet’en, and L...