I recorded Chief Willie Charlie of the Chehalis Band last week for The Current on CBC Radio (the piece ran last Friday and will hopefully be available to download soon). The subject was an altercation that occurred a couple of weeks back on the Fraser River between him and his brother on one side and a group of sports fishermen on the other. The Chief says he was shot by a BB pellet at nearly point-blank range. This shocking altercation was the result of a dispute over who has access to the now diminishing Sockeye salmon numbers on the West Coast. Some fear the salmon stocks on the West Coast could be heading for the same fate as the cod stocks on the East Coast of Canada. It seems to me that if the situation is this dire, then something has to be done, and fast!
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