First Nation occupies fisheries office in B.C. as herring fight escalates – APTN
March 30, 2015
BELLA BELLA, B.C. – Members of a First Nation in B.C. are occupying a federal fisheries office in their latest action against a contentious herring fishery on the province’s central coast.
The Heiltsuk Nation says about 50 members began blockading a Fisheries Department building near Bella Bella on Sunday evening.
It says elected leaders and children are inside the building and have set up tents outside, refusing to leave until the government cancels a planned commercial herring gillnet fishery in its territory.
The nation says stocks are too low and must rebuild before the fishery can resume.
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