Seeking shellfish harvesting safety, security, and sovereignty : Trends in Environmental variables, biotoxins, and shellfish harvesting closure instigations in coastal First Nations Territories in British Columbia ...
The First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) created the We All Take Care of the Harvest (WATCH) Project to address seafood safety, security, and sovereignty among First Nations (FNs) Territories in response to growing concerns over the impacts of climate change on shellfish harvesting. In its pilot ph...
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The University of British Columbia
2023
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0435282 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0435282 |
| Summary: | The First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) created the We All Take Care of the Harvest (WATCH) Project to address seafood safety, security, and sovereignty among First Nations (FNs) Territories in response to growing concerns over the impacts of climate change on shellfish harvesting. In its pilot phase, the WATCH Project is investigating climatic shellfish harvesting closure trends in four FNs Territories in British Columbia (BC): Gitga’at First Nation, Klahoose First Nation, Malahat First Nation, and Tseshaht First Nation. The data necessary to investigate these trends, however, has been historically difficult to access because the data is collected and managed by various Canadian federal government departments. This report presents a preliminary analysis of the relationships between shellfish harvesting area biotoxin closures administered by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), environmental variables, and Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) marine biotoxin data from 2016 to 2022. For the purposes of this ... |
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