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Origins: The Last Reefnetters follows the Salish Sea's last reefnet fishing captains.
The story of the last 12 reefnet fishing captains on the Salish Sea highlights how this ancient Indigenous practice developed by the Lummi Nation was nearly destroyed by legislation, environmental damage and commercial canneries. Today only one tribal member holds a reefnet license.
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Origins: The Last Reefnetters | Promo
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The story of the last 12 reefnet fishing captains on the Salish Sea highlights how this ancient Indigenous practice developed by the Lummi Nation was nearly destroyed by legislation, environmental damage and commercial canneries. Today only one tribal member holds a reefnet license.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- The original people of the Sailor Sea had many gifts from the creator.
One of those gifts was the reef net.
- 200 years is not a lot of time to do this much damage.
- They got swindled basically out of their heritage.
- The rules got changed and we just didn't return.
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