British Columbia: Lake Babine First Nation Revives Fishery Taken From Them In 1906

British Columbia: Lake Babine First Nation Revives Fishery Taken From Them In 1906   Yesterday’s opening of a smokehouse in the community of Tachet on the shores of Babine Lake marks the revival of a salmon fishery taken from the Lake Babine Nation over a century ago.   For thousands of years, the Lake Babine people operated traditional salmon weirs on Babine Lake and the Babine River, harvesting in excess of 750,000 sockeye a year. But in 1906, the Canadian government banned their traditional...

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