Fisheries bring a wealth of value to coastal communities, delivering healthy, sustainable seafood, widespread economic benefits, and a connection to local ecosystems. However, over the past several decades, Pacific fisheries have suffered due to federal policies that shift the benefits of fishing away from harvesters and their communities, and toward vertically integrated national and foreign companies and speculative investors. Fisheries for Communities is a grassroots movement made up of concerned Indigenous and non-Indigenous fish harvesters and their families, small businesses, community organizations, fishmongers, chefs, restaurateurs, coastal community members, academics and researchers that all share a commitment to ensure the many tangible and intangible benefits of BC’s commercial fisheries benefit the people on the water, on the dock, and in adjacent ...
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