Leonard Nicholas sees Atlantic salmon differently than most New Brunswickers might — he sees them as relatives or ancestors.
“They’ve been here just as long as we have,” said Nicholas, who is Tobique First Nation’s fishery strategy director. “That’s why we’ve been trying so hard to save them.”
The Tobique River that Nicholas calls home is a tributary of the Wolastoq, or St. John River. The river system held tens of thousands salmon as recently as the 1980s. Now only a few hundred return to the river’s Mactaquac Dam annually, according to counts from the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
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