Salmon war on two fronts
HOW are Canada and the United States to share the Pacific salmon catch? Their 1985 treaty on it expired in 1992. Each spring they get into a messy fight trying to write a new one. Yet again this year, with fishing due to restart on July 1st, they seem to have failed. And yet again British Columbia is smouldering with grievance, and not just against its American competitors. As the general election of June 2nd showed—and salmon played no small part in it, just as grain marketing did in the prairie provinces—for the Canadian west, the other enemy is far-off Ottawa.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Salmon war on two fronts”
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