Our wealth sits on the table: food, resistance, and salmon farming in two first nations communities.

"It sits on the table, our wealth.... I mean, I can go into Safeway and I can go look at a small little sockeye for 20 bucks, where in reality, our tribe alone, we went out and got 12,000 [wild sockeye] distributed between our people," said Dan Cummings from the Ahousaht Fisheries Office.

(1) He was responding to my questions about the differences between farmed and wild salmon, salmon farmers and fishers, and net pens and fishing spots. I had come to Flores Island off the west coast of Vancouver Island to speak to Ahousaht people about how they experienced the effects of ...

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