Fish law

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Douglas C. (Douglas Colebrook), author.

Kentucky. Game and fish commission.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Fishing--Law and legislation.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Fishing--Law and legislation--British Columbia--History.

Salmon fisheries--Law and legislation--British Columbia--History.

Salmon fisheries.

British Columbia.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 306 p. ) ill. ;

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Ky Louisville steam lith. co 1876?

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Pacific salmon fisheries, owned and managed by Aboriginal peoples, were transformed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by commercial and sport fisheries backed by the Canadian state and its law. Through detailed case studies of the conflicts over fish weirs on the Cowichan and Babine rivers, Douglas Harris describes the evolving legal apparatus that dispossessed Aboriginal people of their fisheries. Building upon themes developed in literatures on state law and local custom, and on law and colonialism, he examines the controversial nature of the colonial encounter at the local level. In doing so, Harris reveals the many divisions both within and among government departments, local setter societies, and Aboriginal communities." "Drawing on government records, statute books, case reports, newspapers, missionary papers, and secondary anthropological literature to explore the roots of the continuing conflict over the salmon fishery, Harris has produced a timely legal and historical study of law as contested terrain in the legal capture of Aboriginal salmon fisheries in British Columbia."--Jacket

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Legal Capture

Native Fisheries

The Common Law of Fisheries

Treaty Rights

The Fisheries Act, 1877

Salmon Fisheries Regulations, 1878

Master and Servant Law in the Fisheries, 1877

Increasing Surveillance, 1878-1887

Native Fisheries Law

Fishery Regulations, 1888

Fishery Regulations, 1894

Conclusion

2 Fish Weirs and Legal Cultures on Babine Lake, 1904-1907

Babine Lake and Its People

A Permanent White Presence

Departments of the Dominion

Barricade Conflict, 1904

Old Cannery Nets, 1905

Barricade Conflict, 1906

Surrender and Trial

Ottawa Meetings

Implementing the Agreement

3 The Law Runs Through It: Weirs, Logs, Nets, and Fly Fishing on the Cowichan River, 1877-1937

The Cowichan River and Its People

Land, Logs, Weirs, and a Settler Society

Protests, Prosecutions, and the Sport Fishery

Cannery Boats and Tourism

Royal Commissions

Reverse Onus, Prosecutions, Nets, and Weirs

4 Law and Colonialism

Law and Colonialism, and British Columbia

Anglo-Canadian Law and the British Columbia Fishery

Native Law

Notes

Bibliography

Illustration Credits

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612014765

9780802084538

0802084532

9781282014763

1282014765

9781442674912

1442674911

OCLC:

987949251