Life on the line – CBC

Sep. 12, 2022

Facing down governments and industry, this First Nation makes a promise: There’ll be no development in the Ring of Fire without its consent

Clayton John Moonias reaches through a heavy morning fog to grab the net he set days earlier.

As he lifts the line out of the water, Moonias flashes a knowing look to his son Landon, who’s seated up front, and pulls in the first of nearly a dozen Lake Sturgeon he’ll harvest that morning.

His family has fished these waters along the Attawapiskat River in remote northern Ontario for generations. For him and others from Neskantaga First Nation, the sturgeon are a way of life.

“Sturgeon is a very important food source. It’s an important part of who we are as a nation,” Neskantaga’s chief, Wayne Moonias, says as he watches Clayton John slip another fish into a tarp on the floor of the cedar canoe.

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