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 off was the challenge at the Eighth Annual Paul Bentley Memorial Fishing Tournament. Fishers were Read more…
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. I sit waiting on the riverbank for Xuhlyaang Reverend Lily Bell as she travels from Read more…
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 fishing rods wait to make the trip to K’aasda Gandlaay Copper River. The students are Read more…
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 it past the fish fence at K’aasda Gandlaay Copper River. Families have been busy since Read more…
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 staff count returning taaxid to monitor the health of the population. The annual return of Read more…
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 frigid river currents. Their faces redden with cold as they flop their bruised and beaten Read more…
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 salmon which have rearing grounds all over Xaayda Gwaay.aay. They begin their life cycle in Read more…
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 halibut and 8,067 pounds of salmon from 31 registered Haida fishers through this program. This Read more…