October 15, 2019 — Native tribes in the US Pacific Northwest and First Nations in Canada have jointly declared a state of emergency due to diminishing salmon stocks in watersheds that cross the US and Canadian border.
According to a press release from the Lummi Nation, indigenous groups from Alaska, Washington and British Columbia made the declaration due to “rapid rate of destructive resource extraction in the waters and lands these nations have called home for thousands of years”.
The groups have committed “to work together to protect, defend, and assert their human rights by protecting clean water and the health and habitat of the wild salmon stocks”.