Grant: Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

Coastal resource governance is an important driver of social-ecological well-being from the local to the global scale. While the degradation of socially, culturally, and economically invaluable fisheries has impacted coastal communities throughout the world, renewed local involvement in coastal management has the potential to foster community well-being by a variety of means. Drawing on social well-being and ecohealth approaches and informed by indigenous research perspectives, this participatory, community-based study characterises the relationships between past, present, and envisioned eulachon management institutions and community well-being on the central coast of British Columbia, Canada. A situational analysis combining grey literature, interviews, and community-based process is used to examine how the re-integration of traditional aboriginal knowledge into local eulachon stewardship is understood to support community well-being, by whom and for whom.