This list of resources is non-exhaustive, but is intended as a good starting point for anyone interested in exploring Indigenous sovereignty over fishing rights.

Books

Fishing Contested Waters, Sarah King

Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia, Doug Harris

Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925, Doug Harris

Tangled Webs of History, Dianne Newell

Websites and films

Bad River
A documentary that chronicles the Wisconsin-based Bad River Band and its ongoing fight for sovereignty.

Fish Wars
An online lesson providing perspectives from Native American community members and their supporters through multimedia.

Project 562
A multi-year US-based photo project dedicated to photographing over 562 federally-recognized Tribes in the US.

News

Fish weirs are still banned under the Fisheries Act. This First Nation wants to build a new one, The Narwhal, 2025

Troubled waters: A new fish weir on Stó:lō territories is met with colonial challenges, IndigiNews, 2024

Through generations, Mowachaht/Muchalaht fishers have been criminalized by the DFO, IndigiNews, 2024

For the Mowachaht, fishing is a way of life — and resistance to colonial destruction, The Narwhal, 2024

Tensions over N.S. Mi'kmaq lobster fishery escalate, The National, 2021

Kitasoo/Xai’xais Nation Monitoring Territories for Oversoaked Crab Traps, Coast Funds, November 2018

Elder arrested after being hounded to sell fish for seven months in undercover fisheries sting, APTN News, July 6, 2016.