The Tseshaht First Nation is celebrating after concluding a new chinook salmon fishing agreement with Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
After a week of protests and media coverage, the two sides signed a two-year deal providing economic opportunity fisheries to the First Nation.
Tseshaht councillor and fisheries negotiator Les Sam said his community is celebrating the deal.
“It brings security to the fisherman, because they were hurting because of the lack of sockeye and now with COVID,” he said. “It’s a real boost and there’s a lot of happy people in the Tseshaht community now.”
Sam said Tseshaht will start fishing Monday evening.
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