Northern Ontario First Nations collaborate on water protection – The Narwhal

by ahnationtalk on January 8, 202569 Views

Jan. 8, 2025

Spurred by industrial development, nations collaborating on testing, data collection and stewardship

Six years ago, Rocky Bay First Nation — an Indigenous community of more than 1,000 people just north of Lake Superior — began to study the health of their food and water.

Worried about the impacts of paper mills, mines and other industrial activities on the water systems that lead to the world’s largest freshwater lake, fishers from the community collected fish for food and to test for contaminants, particularly mercury.

Ray Nobis was one of them. As a kid, he was taken out of school to learn how to trap and hunt. When he grew up, he became a commercial fisherman, “living off the land and guiding, you know, all the normal stuff that we grew up loving my dad for.”

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