Salmon People

On British Columbia's coast, salmon are life.

The Kitasoo-Xai'xais gut and package fish at the Marine Harvest processing plant in Klemtu to support their families.

School children in Bella Bella gather around long wooden tables to learn the traditional methods of preparation and preservation during the annual Salmon Festival.

The North Pacific Cannery in Port Edward stands in remembrance of the thousands of canneries that once dotted the Pacific Coast, before the salmon started to decline.