Summer revives fishing dispute
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The conflict over Aboriginal commercial fisheries in British Columbia is heating up again with the approach of the summer salmon fishing season.
The B.C. Fishermens' Survival Coalition accused the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in mid-June allowing Natives from the Lower Fraser Fishing Authority to over-fish the river.
"Barely a few weeks into the fishing season, the DFO has allowed an endangered run of early Chinook salmon to be over-fished," coalition spokesman Dave Secord said.
