CANADA
Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans
Comité permanent des pêches et des océans
EVIDENCE NUMBER 12,
TÉMOIGNAGES DU COMITÉ NUMÉRO 12
UNEDITED COPY – COPIE NON ÉDITÉE
Thursday April 29, 2004 – le jeudi 29 avril 2004
<edit by CJ page # 33 of the report>
That DFO implemented the aboriginal fishing strategy to facilitate the management of fisheries in a manner
that is consistent with the 1990 Supreme Court of Canada Sparrow decision. The development of an annual
salmon harvest targets for first nations is complex and there is no prescriptive formula. DFO provides food,
social and ceremonial access to aboriginal groups.
It goes on to say that they enter into negotiations to establish appropriate catch levels.
Mr. Chairman, let's just have a look at that and I've observed this nonsense over the
years and basically the department uses this food fishery allocation now as an excuse for
not enforcing the law.
This past year, the Tsawwassen Indian Band harvested 37,000 salmon--37,000 salmon.
That works out to over 1,000 pounds for every man, woman and child on the reserve.
That's under food fishing allocations.
So how can these fellows from the department sit here and tell us, or even suggest that
they have the food fishery under control when those numbers are there. They're their
numbers. They're out there and we're harvesting 1,000 pounds of fish for every man,
woman and child on the reserve. I can't imagine anybody eating 1,000 pounds, over 1,000
pounds.
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Topic: First Nation Tsawwassen Indian Band Salmon Limits 2003 (Read 4357 times)