Rhonda Lee McIsaac — Xaana Kaahli Skidegate Inlet is turning a light milky blue along the shorelines. The result of early arrivals of iinang herring which are excitedly releasing their sperm. The tiny thin fish can be seen swimming in large schools and heard by the smallest sounds of splashing Read more…
Haida Guardian continues to search for SGung.ga signs of spawn along the shoreline from GawGa ‘Yuudal Haswell Bay to Suu Kaahlii Skincuttle Inlet. Altogether Haida Guardians have identified SGung.ga along 29.4km of shoreline at Suu Kaahlii, GawGajaang Louscoone Inlet, GaysiiGas K’iidsii Burnaby Strait and Gandaawuu.ngaay Xyangs Juan Perez Sound. Haida Read more…
The 2015 House of Assembly directed the Council of the Haida Nation to maintain a closure of the commercial herring fishery in Haida territorial waters in 2016 to allow time to address the long-term management and conservation of herring stocks.Following the directive from citizens of the Haida Nation, Fisheries and Read more…
By Molly Clarkson – Scientists presented their research on herring stocks in Gwaii Haanas June 24 at the Haida Heritage Centre. The research is part of the Ocean Tipping Points project, an international collaborative project with two case studies: one on herring in Gwaii Haanas and the other in the Read more…
Gaaw Xaad Kil: ‘iinang Hlgaagilda Xaayda Kil: iinang Alaska Xaadas Kil: íinaang English: Pacific herring Latin: Clupea pallasii Glimmering phantoms rise, boiling the surface of the turbid sea. The iinang herring are scrambling toward the light in order to evade a family of sḵul Harbour porpoise, which herd them; the porpoises are Read more…