Big news! 🎉
We’re honoured to have received the BC Achievement Foundation’s 2025 Indigenous Business Award for Business of the Year in the three-to-ten person enterprise category.
A huge thank you to our team, partners, and fisheries for making this possible.
🎥 Check out the short film created by the BC Achievement Foundation to share our story.
At the Canada/US Pacific Salmon Commission (PSC) Annual Meeting in Portland, Commissioners from the PSC First Nations Caucus (Canada) and Tribal Caucus (US) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collectively safeguard the salmon that have sustained their communities for countless generations.
Pictured here are: Murray Ned, Kwilosintun (Semá:th Nation - PSC FN Caucus); Russ Jones, Chief Nang Jingwas (Haida Nation - PSC FN Caucus); Gordon Sterritt, Xsaxgyoo (Gitxsan Nation - PSC FN Caucus Chair / UFFCA Executive Director); and W. Ron Allen (Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe - US Tribal Caucus).
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Congratulations Authentic Indigenous Seafood for winning Indigenous Business of the Year at last night’s BC Food & Beverage Rise Awards ceremony! CEO Gord Sterritt (also UFFCA Executive Director) said about the achievement: “I can say it’s a testament to our partnerships, their sustainable fisheries, and our dedicated staff who realize the vision and have stuck with us through the thin times.” 🐟 🎉
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**Updated Schedule**
Please like and share! We've got lots of salmon fry and smolt release events planned for spring 2023 as part of our emergency conservation enhancement work. We hope can join us for a release in your area.
The UFFCA is working with Upper Fraser First Nations and partners to rebuild already vulnerable and endangered salmon populations that were further impacted by the Big Bar Landslide.
Please note: Dates are subject to change based environmental/fish health conditions.
Happy #WorldWaterDay! Through projects like water monitoring and habitat restoration, Upper Fraser First Nations are working together to protect freshwater ecosystems and the many fish populations they support.
Yesterday (May 19) approx. 8500 Chinook salmon fry were successfully released into the Willow River. The release was part of emergency conservation enhancement efforts in the Upper Fraser to protect and rebuild endangered and vulnerable salmon populations, which have been additionally impacted by the Big Bar Landslide.
These juvenile salmon are the progeny of brood (parent) stock collected during the 2021 Big Bar emergency enhancement program to help recover several Chinook and sockeye populations. They were reared at the Quesnel River Research Center hatchery.
Emergency conservation enhancement fry releases are planned throughout the spring, summer, and fall in natal streams throughout the Upper Fraser watershed.
Attention fish harvesters: DFO, in partnership with First Nations and the Province of BC, is tagging Chinook, sockeye, and coho salmon with radio tracking transmitters. Information from this program will help improve our understanding of Big Bar impacts and salmon migration biology.
If you find a tag, please report the number, with date and location of capture or recovery, to [email protected] — or turn it in with catch info to your local catch monitoring program.
Transmitters are attached to the back below the dorsal fin, or inserted into the stomach cavity (see poster). Numbers on the transmitters uniquely identify salmon and their migration behaviour.
Thank you!
Yesterday (May 9) approx. 14,000 Upper Chilcotin Chinook fry were released into the Upper Chilcotin River system. These juvenile fish are the progeny of 2021 brood (parent) stock collected as part of emergency conservation enhancement efforts to recover and rebuild vulnerable and endangered Upper Fraser salmon populations that have been further impacted by the Big Bar Landslide. Eggs/fry were incubated and reared at the Quesnel River Research Centre (QRRC) hatchery at the University of Northern British Columbia to increase their chances of survival. The release was a joint effort between the UFFCA, the Tsilhqot'in National Government Fisheries Department, QRRC, and the Fisheries and Oceans Canada Salmonid Enhancement Program (SEP).
📸: TNG Fisheries.
Over 4000 Chinook salmon fry were successfully released into the Salmon River on Tuesday, April 26. The release was part of emergency conservation enhancement efforts in the Upper Fraser to protect and rebuild endangered and vulnerable salmon populations, which have been additionally impacted by the Big Bar Landslide.
These juvenile salmon are the progeny of brood (parent) stock collected during the 2021 Big Bar emergency enhancement program to help recover several Chinook and sockeye populations. The fry release was a joint effort between the UFFCA, DFO’s Salmonid Enhancement Program (SEP), Takla Nation, Nak’azdli First Nation, and the Spruce City Wildlife Association.
Emergency conservation enhancement fry releases are planned throughout the spring, summer, and fall in natal streams throughout the Upper Fraser watershed. The next scheduled fry release will is on Tuesday, May 3, where approx. 2600 Chinook fry will be released into the Endako River.
📸 by Guy Scharf, DFO
#emergencyenhancement #fraserriver #frasersalmon #fisheriesconservation
Today on #IndigenousVeteransDay we honour the service, contributions, and sacrifices of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit veterans. This beautiful beaded poppy was made by UFFCA board member Christina Ciesielski.
