Komk-tamu: Help protect these gentle giants in our rivers and oceans!

What does Atlantic salmon – Plamu - mean to you? Some of us enjoy fishing salmon and eating the nutritious traditional food

The speckled trout are our most sought-after freshwater fish and are widely distributed throughout the Maritimes.

Eel populations have declined in many areas due to hydroelectric developments, habitat fragmentation, pollution, introduced species and overfishing. They may also be affected by climate change or unknown factors. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada has indicated eels are a species of “Special Concern”. In the future, eels may also be listed in the Species At Risk Act. The Mi’kmaw Conservation Group in partnership with St. Francis Xavier University and Ni’newey Video Productions are working on a traditional eel fishing video that will highlight the important issues around the American Eel and what the impact will be [...]