Building an economy that provides for life

Over six years ago, a friend, who was a high school science teacher with a vision, asked me to connect her with someone from our Community Fisheries program. Vania Ling knew that I worked at Ecotrust Canada, a non-profit organization known locally for its long-standing fisheries observer program. She was hatching a specialty marine science course for Grade 12 and wondered if our fisheries team would be interested in teaching the students about crab life cycles, biology, and how our observers handle and collect data aboard vessels. We were in a sunlit community space in Prince Rupert, BC, next to the ocean—where small vessels for commercial and sport fishing came and went in the harbour, and where moored sea containers ...