Fisheries bring a wealth of value to coastal communities, delivering healthy sustainable seafood, an economy, and a connection to local ecosystems. However, over the past several decades West Coast fisheries have suffered due to inadequate federal policies that shift the benefits of fishing away from the boots on the deck, the dock, and their communities, and toward big multinational corporations and speculative investors. People on the West Coast, and across Canada, are losing access to seafood, fish harvesters are losing their livelihoods, and communities are losing their identity. We’re striving for a new fisheries system that supports harvesters and communities, not big corporations and Wall Street-type investors.