'Building the Great Lucrative Fishing Industry': Aboriginal Gillnet Fishers and Protests over Salmon Fishery Regulations for the Nass and Skeena Rivers, 1950s-1960s
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Abstract
[In the 1950s and 1960s, Aboriginal gillnet fishers protested new state salmon regulations restricting access to the industrial fishery of the Nass and Skeena Rivers in northern British Columbia. Using cannery records, as well as letters, petitions, and statements native people made to the Department of Fisheries, this article examines both the protests and the impact of the regulations that the state introduced in a time of massive structural, economic, technological, and ecological change in the northern fishery. The native fishers' letters suggest that both their Aboriginal heritage and work-centered, class-based identities were shaping their opposition to the state. Those leading the protests were active in other areas of native politics, but also strongly identified as gillnetters, small-boat fishers in an increasingly stratified and competitive fishery. Moreover, native fishers in British Columbia had had a long history of labour activism and organization. This article suggests that understanding the ways these Aboriginal groups navigated between both the colonial and capitalist legacies can provide insights into native politics and experiences in this period. /// Dans les années 1950 et 1960, les pêcheurs autochtones ont protesté contre les nouveaux règlements de la pêche du saumon au filet maillant qui limitaient l'accès à l'industrie de la pêche dans les rivières Nass et Skeena au Nord de la Colombie-britannique. En utilisant les dossiers des conserveries, ainsi que les lettres, les pétitions et les déclarations que les Autochtones ont faites au Département de l'industrie de la pêche, cet article examine les protestations et l'impact des règlements que l'État avait introduit dans une période de changements structuraux, économiques, technologiques et écologiques massifs dans l'industrie de la pêche. Selon les lettres des pêcheurs autochtones, l'héritage autochtone et l'identité axée sur le travail et la classe ont façonné leur opposition contre l'État. Ceux qui dirigeaient les protestations étaient actifs dans d'autres domaines de la politique relative aux Autochtones, mais qui s'identifiaient aussi comme pêcheurs au filet maillant et au petit bateau dans une industrie de la pêche de plus en plus stratifiée et concurrentielle. De plus, les pêcheurs autochtones ont eu une longue histoire d'activisme et d'organisation syndicale. Cet article suggère que la compréhension des moyens par lesquels les groupes autochtones avaient navigué entre les patrimoines coloniaux et capitalistes peut prendre un aperçu de la politique et de l'expérience des Autochtones pendant cette période.]
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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