Fundraising for W̱SÁNEĆ Legal Challenge
On March 12th, 2026, ADIMS hosted a well-attended community fundraising event in support of the W̱SÁNEĆ Leadership Council’s legal challenge to DFO’s management of the herring fishery. We presented five short films to show herring natural history and their key role in the marine food web, as…
Demonstration at DFO Offices in Vancouver
November 17, 2025, three members of ADIMS travelled to Vancouver to join others in front of DFO’s central offices in Vancouver, calling for a pause in the herring fishery (food and bait fishery opens this week). A short meeting with the Regional Director General, Anna Klassen, was arranged…
Legal Challenge to DFO's Herring Fishery Management
Dear Minister Thompson, The attached letter to you is part of a long-standing effort to bring DFO’s mismanagement of the Pacific herring fishery to the Minister’s attention, and to achieve a pause in harvesting in both the winter and spring fisheries, so the dangerously declining herring…
One for ADIMS: Goodbye Shellfish Predator Netting in Estuaries
ADIMS would like to thank Tony Gregson for his excellent article in the September 12th issue of The Barnacle, where he correctly states that: "Under the 2025 iteration of the Conditions of Licence for shellfish tenures in Baynes Sound, DFO (Department of Fisheries and Oceans) requires that…
Suspend the Strait of Georgia Herring Fisheries
Dear the Integrated Herring Harvest Planning Committee (IHHPC), The following comments are submitted jointly by Pacific Wild Alliance, Conservancy Hornby Island, Herring Conservation and Research Society, Saanich Inlet Protection Society, Bowen Island Conservancy, Association for Denman Island…