First Nation Groups Vows To Stop BC Herring Fishing.

A First Nation in British Columbia is vowing to disrupt a contentious herring fishery if commercial boats return to the Central Coast and drop their nets.

The Heiltsuk Tribal Council threatened last week it would not allow the fishery to open this year because it found stocks were too weak and need time to rebuild.

But on Sunday, the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans opened a herring-roe seine fishery in Spiller Channel, near the community of Bella Bella, prompting an angry response from the band.

Heiltsuk Coun. Reg Moody declared the band will intervene if it discovers boats returning to the area. “We plan to put lines (ropes) in the water, to just disrupt them when they’re trying to fish,” said Moody, who is also chairman of the Central Coast Regional District. “There’s ways to do that peacefully.”

Over-fishing is definitely and issue in the world, BC is known for its abundance of fish, sadly that too will become a thing of the past.

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