Category Archives: Fisheries

Skeena Watershed | Skeena Wild – Conservation Trust

Working in collaboration with members of the Le Guilvinec Fishermen’s Committee, The Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC is making a documentary that explores how family-based fishing is navigating the impacts of increasingly liberalized trade in fish and fish products. Le Marin, the leading marine policy and issues newspaper in France has published an article on January 12, 2007 (see here) on our current project in France.

From April 20-23, 2006 I was an invited participant at the Muros Congress on Tourism and Fishing Communities. This event was organized by a variety of government and university centers, most notably the Centre for Studies in Tourism based at the University of Santiago de Compostella. The objective of the congress was to explore the ways in which tourism might be combined with the more traditional activities of commercial fishing to provide a long term and sustainable economic future for the municipality of Muros. Speakers involved representatives of Galician communities who had tried various tourism approaches, local academics, and representatives such as myself who were invited to present on the experiences in places as disperse as Northern Norway, Wales, and British Columbia. My own talk, available below as an mp3 file and a pdf version of my power point presentation, focused upon the ways in which tourism in Prince Rupert has developed in the context of Prince Rupert’s fishing industry.

Muros Talk

• mp3 audio version. Please note introduction and some other comments are in Galician. The language of the presentation is English.
• pdf version of powerpoint presentation.
• newspaper story from La Vox de Galicia