Resumen de Reconciling Haida ethics with Pacific herring management
Pacific herring have been a vital source of food, income, livelihood, and culture for Pacific Northwest indigenous communities for millennia. Today, the ecological and cultural value of herring, as forage fish for predatory marine fish, birds, and mammals within the marine ecosystem and traditional food for indigenous communities, are in direct conflict with the economic value of lucrative commercial fisheries for herring roe, exported primarily to Japanese markets, leading to a highly contested herring management regime. We examine Haida First Nation ethics and values in relation to existing management principles and practices for the Haida herring spawn-on-kelp (k�aaw) fishery in relation to the commercial herring roe and food and bait fisheries. We are developing an innovative practical ethics framework for analysis with Haida Gwaii community members to facilitate a collaborative Pacific herring governance solution. The practical ethics approach combines the ethical matrix, a conceptual tool that analyses the wellbeing, autonomy, and justice of different human and environmental interest groups, and rapfish, a semiquantitative, rapid appraisal technique used to evaluate the sustainability of fisheries, adapted to the local Haida Gwaii herring fisheries context, with input from diverse stakeholders. By making values transparent, decision-making processes in high uncertainty/high stakes situations can be more easily negotiated among stakeholders to achieve just and sustainable outcomes for those affected.
