Dm sibilhaa'nm da laxyuubm Gitxaala: Picking Abalone In Gitxaala Territory

Dm sibilhaa'nm da laxyuubm Gitxaala: Picking Abalone In Gitxaala Territory Charles R. Menzies, 2010   In the face of aggressive overfishing of bilhaa (abalone) by non-Indigenous commercial fishermen, the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans closed all forms of harvesting of bilhaa. This paper describes the longstanding ecologically appropriate harvesting practices of Gitxaala, an indigenous nation on the northwest coast of North America. The paper documents the antiquity of Gitxaala...

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