Reveals the contradictions and the consequences of an Indian land policy premised on access to fish and a program of fisheries management intended to open the resource to newcomers. Presenting first treaties signed on Vancouver Island between 1850 and 1854, this book maps the connections between colonial land policy and fisheries law and policy.

Landing Native Fisheries" will interest students, scholars, policy makers, and general readers interested in the history of law and colonialism, BC history, treaty making and land claims, Native-newcomer relations, and the history of fisheries.