Ahousaht and aquaculture company celebrate protocol

Stefania Seccia
March 30, 2010
Westerly News

Officials from Mainstream Canada joined the Ahousaht First Nation in their traditional territory last Saturday to celebrate a new five-year protocol agreement that was signed Jan. 8.

Mainstream has been working in Ahousaht for 10 years and the last protocol was up for renewal. For the past two years the two groups have been assessing and working out the new, amended protocol.

"It was two very long years up and down," Fernando Villarroel, Mainstream Canada's managing director, said. "But we managed to get a protocol that's beneficial to Ahousaht."

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