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MEDIA INDIGENA 240

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"We are the Salmon People" / MI 240

ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:

Fish farm phase-out. And with the end of aquaculture as we know it in sight on British Columbia’s central coast, there is hope it could help spark a revival in the region’s once rich wild salmon population. Or, at the very least, halt the decline of species said to be at the foundation of numerous Indigenous cultures.

But not everyone’s glad to see the farms fade away. In fact, there are those First Nations with a stake in the industry. Wading into these troubled waters with host/producer Rick Harp this episode are Kim TallBear, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, and Candis Callison, associate professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Graduate School of Journalism at UBC.

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LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:

• Shutting down salmon farms in BC begins in 2022: BIV

• Some First Nations Are Fighting Fish Farms in BC to Protect Their Waters and Cultures: Civil Eats

• Traditional Animal Foods of Indigenous Peoples of Northern North America: Salmon Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment

• Salmon Nation

• Biologist Alexandra Morton

• Fish farms: archives APTN National News

• Aquaculture statistics Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

• "Farmed Salmon" DFO

• BC Salmon Farmers say phasing out fish farms in Discovery Islands ‘comes at a bad time’ MyPowellRiver.com

• Loblaw starts selling responsibly farmed salmon Canadian Grocer

• Spill of farmed Atlantic salmon near San Juan Islands much bigger than first estimates Seattle Times

• B.C. harvests 196,000 tonnes of fish a year. Most of it is exported and that's a problem, advocates say National Observer