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Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada's Pacific Coast Fisheries

Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada's Pacific Coast Fisheries

Newell, Dianne

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Canadian HistoryGeneral LawGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0802077463
ISBN13: 9780802077462
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1993
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.38 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

Fishing rights are one of the major areas of dispute for aboriginals in Canada today. Dianne Newell explores this controversial issue and looks at the ways government regulatory policy and the law have affected Indian participation in the Pacific Coast fisheries.

For centuries, the economies of Pacific Coast Indians were based on their fisheries. Marine resources, mainly salmon, were used for barter, trade, ceremony, and personal consumption. This pattern persisted after the arrival of European and Asian immigrants, even during the first phases of the non-Indian commercial fishing industry when Indian families were depended upon for their labour and expertise. But as the industrial fishery grew, changes in labour supply, markets, and technology rendered Pacific Coast Indians less central to the enterprise and the aboriginal fishery became legally defined as food fishing. By the late 1960s, rigid new licence limitation policies were introduced and regulations transformed the processing sector.

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