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 grown 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 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 seeking to expand natural resource sectors along 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 chains, driving own-source revenue. A path to Nations issuing their own licences and own-source revenue funding housing, mental health, and community services.
Check the Knowledge Center →Science-Based, Indigenous-Led Approach to Wild Salmon Stewardship
The Indigenous Centre for Aquatic Health Science (ICAHS) brings together peer-reviewed research and ancestral knowledge to monitor wild and farmed salmon on the same coast. Stewardship led by the Nations who have cared for 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 the careers of young people and families and unlocks hundreds of millions in new Canadian investment.
Check the Knowledge Center →The case, the science, the voices.
Open Letter to Tony Allard: You Keep Speaking About Us. Why Won't You Speak With Us?
Rightsholder coastal First Nations respond to Tony Allard's call for the federal government to uphold its 2029 salmon farming ban, and invite him to their territories for respectful, evidence-based dialogue.
Read →How Coastal First Nations Built an Ownership Economy in B.C. Salmon Farming
The federal government's 2029 salmon farming ban would dismantle the Nation-owned smokehouses, canneries, boats, and brands coastal First Nations built on B.C. aquaculture.
Read →B.C. Salmon Farming - Building Canada's Food Supply at Home
Canada imported $700M in farmed salmon in 2024. The federal government's 2029 salmon farming ban would deepen import dependence when Canadians face rising food prices.
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.”
The Coalition
North Coast & North Vancouver Island
- Kitasoo Xai'xaisKlemtu · Central Coast
- TlatlasikwalaHope Island · NW tip
- Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xwPort Hardy · North Vancouver Island
- KwakiutlFort Rupert · Port Hardy
- QuatsinoQuatsino Sound · NW Vancouver Island
- TlowitsisNE Vancouver Island
Central & West Vancouver Island
- Wei Wai KumCampbell River
- We Wai KaiCampbell River
- Ehattesaht ChinehkintZeballos · West Vancouver Island
- AhousahtClayoquot Sound · West Vancouver Island
- Tla-o-qui-ahtTofino · Clayoquot Sound
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