ments within our Traditional Territories.”
Other ventures include the Coast Tsim-
shian Fish Plant, which received a major
renovation and upgrade in 2012, making
it the most modern fish processing plant
on the Coast of British Columbia. While
the plant historically had been managed
with the help of third-party operators, it
developed a reputation of being unre-
liable due to constant start-ups and
shut-downs. Once the renovations were
complete, Lax Kw’alaams Band took the
business into its own hands.
“Part of the strategywas to shift our focus
from traditional Salmon processing, to
a focus on groundfish which allows us
to keep the Plant open and processing
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