INDIGENOUS COMMERCIAL FISHERS TAKE THE LEAD! It is hard to manage a resource properly when you don’t have enough data or information upon which to make informed decisions. This would seem to apply equally well to managing natural resources such as fish and wildlife populations as it would to managing a country’s finances or managing a pandemic for that matter. Data, and the knowledge you gain from it is critical. SCIENCE BASED MANAGMENT IS THE KEY In the fishery world, sound, scientifically defensible data collected through a variety of monitoring programs provides part of the foundation for managing a fishery.…
Author: Dr Brian Kotak
Dr Brian Kotak
The first ever Coordinator of the Collaborative Stock Monitoring Program (CSMP), a joint initiative of the federal government (Indigenous Services Canada), provincial government (fisheries branch), University College of the North and several First Nation communities.