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KYUQUOT
AQUACULTURE NEWS
Management
plan means clam harvesting in Kyuquot
March 15, 2007: An
agreement between Kyuquot/Checleseht First Nations, Environment Canada,
DFO and the CFIA, has made it possible for local clam diggers to harvest
in their territory for the first time since closure of Area 26 took place
in 2004 due to water quality issues. Story
Charges
laid against salmon farming company
June 16, 2005: Cites illegal
discharge of sea lice from one of Heritage Salmon's fish farms in the
Broughton Archipelago. Story
KYUQUOT
AQUACULTURE OVERVIEW
The
Vancouver Island Summary Land Use Plan identified the following aquaculture
use and potential in the Nootka region:
• there is a high aquaculture capability
in lower Kashutl Inlet, on the north side of Moketas Island, in the channel
between Union and Hohoae Island, and in Chamiss and Diesel Bay
Kyuquot
Finfish Aquaculture Opportunity Map (March 2002) PDF
The Aquaculture Opportunity Study process is led by the Ministries of Sustainable
Resource Management, Land and Water British Columbia Inc., Agriculture, Food
and Fisheries and Water, Land and Air Protection with input from the federal
Department of Fisheries & Oceans Canada.
Maps are developed that identify areas which have the capability to accommodate
salmon aquaculture and meet government's siting criteria for salmon farms.
Such criteria incorporate required buffering from other farms, salmon streams,
shellfish beds, and other resource values.
Kyuquot Sound Shellfish Culture
Suitability Map (2001)
Guide
for Shellfish Tenure Applicants
Nootka-Kyuquot Community Application for New Shellfish Aquaculture Tenures
The Nootka-Kyuquot Shellfish Aquaculture Committee provides community input
to Land and Water British Columbia Inc. in their shellfish tenure application
process for Nootka Sound, Kyuquot Sound and Esperanza Inlet, with the exception
of the Nuchatlaht First Nation Ha’houlthee (traditional territory).
Protected areas are not available for shellfish aquaculture development. The
community application is used, in addition to the Provincial application process,
to adjudicate tenure applications and provide recommendations to LWBC on which
tenures should be granted.
Found in quiet waters with sand, mud and gravel bottoms. Growing up to 7.6cm, these clams are harvested commercially by hand, using long-tined rakes. Also harvested by sport fishery.
