When government policies destroy the environment, have they abrogated the right of citizens? This paper looks at this question from the perspective of Indigenous Peoples who have an explicit constitutional right to fish. Yet both the federal and provincial governments have accelerated the decline of Pacific Coast fisheries with policies that encourage overfishing, bad logging practices and now risk total collapse of the stocks with approval of fish farms up and down the coast. This a reprinted version of the 2002 Vol. 21 No.5

Wild Fish Need Wild Rivers & Oceans

Co-Published by Wilderness Committee & Union of BC Indian Chiefs, Vol. 21, No. 5 — FALL 2002

United for Wild Fisheries

Contact the following groups for more information on specific programs around BC aimed at stopping the decline of wild fisheris and rehabilitating streams and rivers to bring the salmon back.

First Nations Groups

Environmental Groups

International Support

  • Alouette Verlag/Jurgen Bogden
    Uferstrasse 41, 2113,
    Oststeinbek, Germany
    [040] 712-2353 FAX: [040] 713-4188
  • Support Group for Indigenous People K.W.I.A.
    Breughelstraat 31-33 2018
    Antwerpen, Belgium tel:
    +32[0]3.218.84.88 Fax: +32[0]3.230.45.40
  • Society for Threatened Peoples
    Hamburg, Germany
    Tel: 011-49-551-499-0618 Fax: 011-49-511-580-28