Commercial fishing, an essential service, couldn’t stop for COVID-19 and that meant our fisheries team at Ecotrust Canada had to reimagine how to deliver its dockside fisheries monitoring programs on the West Coast. Since 2013, we’ve been certified by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to train at-sea and dockside fisheries monitors. As a charity, we have explored many pathways to build a more sustainable, fair, and vibrant economy for the communities we work with — and dockside fisheries monitoring is one of them. On the West Coast of Vancouver Island, we provide fisheries monitoring services to the five Nuu-chah-nulth Nations through the Ha’oom Fisheries Society, whose members manage and harvest wild sustainable seafood from their traditional territories in Tofino, Zeballos, ...
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