{"id":16464,"date":"2016-01-14T07:20:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T12:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16464"},"modified":"2016-01-14T07:20:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T12:20:49","slug":"british-columbia-first-nations-failing-fisheries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16464","title":{"rendered":"British Columbia First Nations\u2019 Failing Fisheries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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British Columbia First Nations\u2019 Failing Fisheries<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Climate change means marine creatures are migrating\u2014away from First Nations\u2019 territory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Seafood has sustained the First Nations of British Columbia for\u00a0millennia. The annual migration of Pacific\u00a0salmon, in particular, is lifeblood. Each year, millions of salmon swim and leap their way up major river systems such as the Fraser and Skeena all the way to landlocked communities in the province\u2019s interior. But now, climate change is threatening to\u00a0strike at the heart of those time-honored connections by pushing\u00a0marine life farther north in search of cooler waters.<\/div>\n
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As a new study warns<\/a>, \u201cunprecedented climate change poses a considerable threat\u201d to First\u00a0Nations\u2019 food, cultural, and economic values. By 2050, aboriginal catches are expected to\u00a0decline significantly, depriving indigenous people from 16 coastal communities of up to CAN $12-million annually in commercial fisheries, the study shows.<\/p>\n

Warming and changing oxygen concentrations in the ocean, spurred on by anthropogenic climate change, will send marine life swimming northward at an average rate of about 10 to 18 kilometers per decade. For the 98 fish and invertebrate\u00a0species studied, this will equate to an average drop in annual catches of 4.5 to 11 percent, with the declines being much higher for certain species.<\/p>\n

The study shows that two critical species will suffer the greatest declines: salmon by 17 to 29 percent; and their prey, herring, by 28 to 49 percent. Catches\u00a0of green sea urchin could shrink by as much as 36 percent, flounder\u00a0and sole by 30 percent, shrimp and prawns by 18 percent, and halibut by 13\u00a0percent.<\/p>\n

Aboriginal groups located in British Columbia\u2019s more southerly waters are\u00a0expected to suffer the greatest catch losses: up to 27 percent for\u00a0the Tsawwassen First Nation near the Canada-United States border,\u00a0compared with 6.6 percent for the Haida First Nation off the province\u2019s north coast.<\/p>\n

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British Columbia First Nations\u2019 Failing Fisheries Climate change means marine creatures are migrating\u2014away from First Nations\u2019 territory. Seafood has sustained the First Nations of British Columbia for\u00a0millennia. The annual migration of Pacific\u00a0salmon, in particular, is lifeblood. Each year, millions of salmon swim and leap their way up major river systems such as the Fraser and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[94,141,369,8415,11709,11710,11711],"class_list":["post-16464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-british-columbia","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-hakai-magazine","tag-larry-pynn","tag-native-fisheries","tag-warming-oceans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16465,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16464\/revisions\/16465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}