Tomcod Brings Everyone to the Table
The Apoqnmatulti’k project brings Indigenous communities and scientists together to better understand one another and three food fisheries.
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The Apoqnmatulti’k project brings Indigenous communities and scientists together to better understand one another and three food fisheries.
COLCHESTER COUNTY, Canada — Standing on the snow-covered banks of the Shubenacadie River in Canada’s easternmost province, Nova Scotia, Alanna Sylbiloy tosses a wire trap into the icy water flowing past, in search of a small fish known as a tomcod. Atlantic tomcod (Microgadus tomcod) — or punamu in the language of the Mi’kmaq, the […]
A project called Apoqnmatulti’k — Mi’kmaq for “we help each other” — hopes to protect American eels, American lobster and Atlantic tomcod on the ancestral lands of the Mi’kmaq.