The FNFC Photo Contest has ended. Thank you for all the beautiful photo submissions! Judging has started and the top 12 photos will become the new 2025 FNFC Calendar. The grand prize winner will be on the cover and receive their photo on a professional gallery wrapped canvas, courtesy of London Drugs. All 12 selected […]
FNFC Photo Contest: Celebrating First Nations Successes – Waters, Lands, & Fish Read More »
FNFC is pleased to announce that on National Indigenous Peoples Day, June 21, 2024, John Henderson (Vice-President of the First Nations Fisheries Council of B.C.), along with the Honourable Diane Lebouthillier (Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard) and the Honourable Kelly Greene (British Columbia Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries and Aquaculture), signed a
Trilateral Declaration and Accord to Address the Decline of Wild Pacific Salmon Read More »
Salmon Parks are a Mowachalt/Muchalaht and Nuchatlaht First Nations initiative supported by Uu-a-thluk, the aquatic resource management department of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council and CPAWS. These parks in the traditional territories of Mowachalt/Muchalaht and Nuchatlaht First Nations aim to protect the wild salmon from the impacts of industrial development. They are the focus of an Indigenous-led
In 2016, the Government of Canada launched the federal $1.5 billion Oceans Protection Plan (OPP), a major component of which is to build meaningful Indigenous partnerships for effective marine and coastal management. The OPP presents new opportunities for First Nations engagement and co-development of marine policy and processes.