Marine
Swain reels in the big one
Rhonda Lee McIsaac — Trolling along the north side of Chaatl Island from Skidegate Point towards Startup on an overcast Saturday morning, in the hopes that a tyee will catch your hook and not roll […]
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Salmon Bones and Bonehead
Rhonda McIsaac — The slick brown face of a Sdllguu river otter hlgiits’idýaaga bobbing out of the water eats the discarded remains of a salmon head at the Yaagun Gandlaay Yakoun River boat launch area. […]
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Of Sunshine and Sockeye
By Tawla Jaad — Lined up at the ferry dock waiting for the Kwuna, students from the Haida classes at Gidgalang Kuuyas Naay grades 8 through 12 equipped with backpacks, k’aas st’aas.sk’aayah gumboots and xaw sk’aang.uu […]
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Feeding families: the Ḵ’aasda G̱andlaay fishery
Rhonda Lee McIsaac and video by Tawla Jaad — “Ten thousand taax̲id t’algiiyuu dang G̲a dii k’uuga ga” I love you more than 10, 000 taaxid (sockeye) – and even more than that have made […]
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Bobblehead Road
By Graham Richard — In anticipation of this year’s returning taaxid sockeye, Fisheries staff headed down Bobblehead Road to K’aasda Gandlaay Copper River Tuesday, April 11. The team was there to install a fence that helps fisheries […]
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Chiina sgwaansing, chiina sding, chiina sg̱id, chiina g̱uuhlg̱ahl (one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish)
Cold autumn rain and wind announce the arrival of an annual phenomenon that happens in the rushing waters of Diina the Deena River. This is the season when the Haida Fisheries staff return to the […]
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Taanuud gen uu taay.yii gii uu hll X̱aw gang (When it’s fall I go Coho fishing)
The rain has been falling for month, and the rivers swelling with water, fish, and falling leaves. Many people have been out fishing for táay.yii this season for their winter stores. Táay.yii are beautiful silver […]
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Fish for family
The Haida Traditional Food Fishery program, which has been operating at increased capacity this summer, is now closing for the season. Last summer the Council of the Haida Nation purchased and distributed 6,676 pounds of […]