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"It’s Delaney Mack’s first time pulling crab traps and she is unsure what to
do. Mack, the newest member of the Nuxalk Guardian Watchmen, has had months of
training for the multifaceted job, which might on any given day include
rescuing a kayaker, taking ocean samples or monitoring a logging operation. But
winching crabs up 100ft from the sea floor was not in the manual.
Soon, however, the four-person operation is humming along. The crab survey is a
vital part of their work as guardians of this Indigenous territory in the
Canadian province of British Columbia. It was started more than 15 years ago in
response to heavy commercial crab fishing in an area where the federal
government had done little independent monitoring to determine if a fishery was
sustainable.
It is the quintessential guardian assignment: remote monitoring work of
immediate importance to a small community, far beyond the gaze of
administrators at understaffed government agencies.
The watchmen are the eyes and ears of their First Nation community on the lands
and water of their territory, which spans about 18,000 sq km (7,000 sq miles,
roughly the size of Kuwait) on the central coast of British Columbia around the
town of Bella Coola, 430 mountainous kilometres northwest of Vancouver."
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
