The Clayoquot Biosphere Trust awarded $20,000 in funding to Ha’oom Fisheries Society (HFS) for their Coho Vitality Project. This project will begin in the fall of 2024 and will be led by Hutton Noth, a former junior biologist with HFS and a master's student in the Resource and Environmental Management program at Simon Fraser University.

This project works to rebuild and sustain healthy cuw̓it populations within the five First Nations territories in the region and adhere to the nuučaan̓uł principles of hišukiš čawaak (everything is connected, everything is one) and isaak (respect).  

Read the full award details and learn more about the project via the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust.