Our food source is our livelihood: a First Nation’s plea for sustainable salmon farming

For First Nations like Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw, aquaculture is the bridge between poverty and prosperity.

All food production has environmental costs, and marine aquaculture, which absorbs carbon and mitigates climate change, is considered by many experts as a responsible way forward, write Chief Terry Walkus and Cyrus Singh.Photograph courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Flickr

Opinion

BY CHIEF TERRY WALKUS, CYRUS SINGH

February 15, 2024

For too long, the British Columbia salmon farming debate has been drowned out by fearmongering. Environmental activists paint aquaculture as a plague, demanding its immediate closure. Their cries ignore facts, silence First Nations like us, and threaten our very survival.

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