Food affordability.Food security.Food sovereignty.
Coastal First Nations have a plan to lower grocery bills, keep good jobs in Canada, and feed Canadians with Canadian salmon. Federal policy is blocking it.
Canada first. Canadian food. Canadian jobs. Indigenous-led.
We are offering Canada a solution.
Families are squeezed at the grocery store. Coastal towns are losing paycheques to outsourced food. Canada already has the people, the waters, and the science to grow affordable salmon at home — and 17 First Nations ready to lead it.
The Carney government says it wants affordability, building Canada, and taking care of Canadians. Reversing the 2029 net-pen ban delivers all three. One decision. Three wins. Made in Canada.
Five ways reversing the ban makes Canada stronger.
Affordability, jobs, reconciliation, science, and a Canada-first food policy. One decision delivers all five — immediately.
Lower Grocery Bills for Canadian Families
Keep salmon farmed here instead of flown in from Norway, Chile, and Scotland. Domestic production keeps protein affordable at a moment when families need it most.
Check the Knowledge Center →A Canada-First Food Policy That Actually Puts Canada First
Ottawa talks food security and economic reconciliation, then blocks Indigenous-led domestic food production while approving more oil tanker traffic on the same coast. One standard for everyone. Keep the food supply Canadian.
Check the Knowledge Center →Indigenous-Led, Canada-Built Economic Reconciliation
First Nations equity across processing and supply chain, a path to Nations issuing their own licenses, and own-source revenue funding housing, mental health, and community services.
Check the Knowledge Center →Science-Based Stewardship, Funded by Industry
A 2-cents-per-pound levy from partner companies funds wild salmon research through the Indigenous Centre for Aquatic Health Science (ICAHS). Farmed and wild salmon coexisting, monitored by the people who've stewarded these waters for thousands of years.
Check the Knowledge Center →Protect Good Jobs on the Canadian Coast
Year-round employment in remote communities with no replacement industries. Reversing the ban protects thousands of paycheques and unlocks hundreds of millions in new Canadian investment.
Check the Knowledge Center →The case, the science, the voices.
Coalition to Ottawa: reverse the 2029 net-pen ban
17 Nations, coastal mayors, and industry CEOs deliver a unified plan to the PM's Chief of Staff.
Read →Oil tankers and salmon farms: Canada's policy contradiction
Ottawa is prepared to increase tanker traffic on BC's coast while shutting down a sustainable, Indigenous-led food production sector. One standard doesn't fit both.
Read →We are the first salmon people. We can feed Canada and protect wild salmon.
Dallas Smith on the false choice between domestic food production and conservation.
Read →What the Modern Salmon Farming review actually found
500 pages, 13 chapters, peer-reviewed. A plain-language summary of the evidence.
Read →Klemtu: from 5% to 99% employment in one generation
Kitasoo Xai'xais Deputy Chief Councillor Isaiah Robinson on what salmon farming restored to his community — and what a ban would take away.
Read →ICAHS: Indigenous-led, peer-reviewed aquatic health science
The Indigenous Centre for Aquatic Health Science unites Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western science under Nation-led governance. Funded in perpetuity by a 2¢/lb levy on farmed salmon.
Read →“My community now has 99 per cent employment and 51% of our income comes from salmon farming. It makes no sense to shut it down. There is no industry that can fill that space.”
Seventeen Nations. One coast. One plan.
Territories span western and central Vancouver Island to BC's central coast. Each Nation negotiates independently; the coalition speaks collectively on federal policy.
West Coast Vancouver Island
- Tla-o-qui-ahtTofino
- AhousahtClayoquot Sound
- Mowachaht/MuchalahtGold River
- NuchatlahtNootka Island
- EhattesahtZeballos
- Kyuquot/CheclesetNW Vancouver Island
East Coast Vancouver Island
- We Wai KaiQuadra Island
- Wei Wai KumCampbell River
- TlowitsisNE Vancouver Island
- Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xwPort Hardy
Central Coast
- Kitasoo Xai'xaisKlemtu
+ 6 additional member Nations bring the coalition to seventeen.
A coalition with national reach.
Industry, Indigenous leadership, agriculture, policy institutes, and the coastal communities where this work happens every day — aligned behind one plan.
Industry & Processing
Policy & Economic
Agriculture
First Nations & Indigenous
Coastal Communities
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