Drawing on Indigenous Governance and Stewardship to Build Resilient Coastal Fisheries: People and Abalone along Canada's Northwest Coast

• Main Authors: Lee, Lynn Chi, Reid, Mike, Jones, Russ, Winbourne, Janet, Rutherford, Murray, Salomon, Anne Katherine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Canada; Skidegate; First Nations; haida
• Online Access: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/18927

Small-scale indigenous abalone fisheries on the northwest coast of Canada persisted for at least two millennia prior to modern commercial and recreational fisheries that lasted for four decades before collapsing, causing a coast wide closure that remains today. What traditional governance and stewar...