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Fisheries & Aquaculture

Library guide for topics in fisheries and aquaculture, including aquatic ecosystems, aquatic habitats, animal physiology, entomology, parasitology, fishes, vertebrates, invertebrates, fisheries management, wildlife management, etc.

Find below a list of resources highlighting traditional Hul'q'umi'num' names for fisheries-related topics.

Ethnobiology

Donna Gerdts and Brian Compton, 1999, with the help of Elders, linguists, and a web-design class from BCIT, constructed a site featuring information on some native plants with words and recordings from all Island dialect, Downriver dialect, and Upriver dialect.

First Voices

A searchable list of recordings of names for birds, fish, insects, mammals, reptiles, and shellfish.

Hul'q'umi'num' Language Academy

 Information and pronunciations of words used for mariculture provided by the Hul’q’umi’num’ Language Academy.

Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group

A guide to plants and animals of southern Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and the Salish Sea.

Video & Auditory Guides

Jared Qwustenuxun Williams shares Hul'q'umi'num' plant and animal names found in the Somenos Marsh.

Ocean Networks Canada's list of common ocean animal names.

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