23 new Aboriginal Fisheries Guardians were honoured at a ceremony in Squamish this weekend after wrapping up their training.
Introduced by the DFO in 1992, the national program is a 3 week training course which provides Indigenous groups with an opportunity to impact fishery management, and conservation.
Indigenous Guardians engage in compliance, monitoring, and stewardship activities to ensure resource protection and conservation in their territories.
Graduates of the program were presented with their certificates by Federal Minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Coast Guard, Jonathan Wilkinson.
With the 23 new additions, the total number of certificate holders in Canada is around 90, spread across 25 communities country-wide.
