Members of the Heiltsuk Nation of BC's central coast vowed at demonstration in Bella Bella and Vancouver Tuesday to defend threatened herring stocks from DFO's planned gillnet fishery in Area 7.
The Heiltsuk were backed by the neighbouring Kitasu/Xaixais nation, the Council of the Haida Nation and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs. The concern over gillnet fishery comes in the wake of a highly controversial seine fishery in the same area this past weekend.
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