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[Mike Reid]:Here on the central coast we protested for years when we finally realized that the stocks were too low to sustain themselves anymore.

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[Mike Reid]:We'd had meetings with DFO saying, you know, you've lowered the cut-off number for the fishery too many times now and the stocks just aren't there anymore.

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[Mike Reid]:That year the industry took probably 10% of what they normally would have taken.

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[Mike Reid]:They just couldn't find any more large fish to take the herring roe out of it in the Sacro fishery.

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[Mike Reid]:And we saw it as the

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[Mike Reid]:the same kind of mind frame or the mind thought would happen on the East Coast there.

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[Mike Reid]:They're just, they've taken too many stocks, too much of the stock and it had finally crashed before anybody, you know, stood up and said, you know, it's enough.

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[Mike Reid]:And they're still waiting for their stocks to return on the East Coast.

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[Mike Reid]:We're doing the same thing here on the West Coast.

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[Mike Reid]:And the First Nations community on the whole coast here largely depend on the herring and the herring

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[Mike Reid]:the herring roe to sustain ourselves.

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[Mike Reid]:We probably rely on the ocean a lot more than people in the cities.

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[Mike Reid]:We go out and get the salmon stocks and the herring roe and the herring itself, halibut stocks.

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[Mike Reid]:The cost of living up here is so high that we need those stocks just to sustain ourselves.