West Moberly First Nation Chief Roland Willson said the day his nine-year-old son caught a nine pound fish, a doly varden, in the Williston reservoir should have been a proud moment.
“He caught it in the reservoir but because of what I know about the mercury we couldn’t eat it,” Willson said. “He had snagged it so bad we had to take it home and it ended up going in the garbage.”
The Williston reservoir, resulting from the creation of the W.A.C Bennett dam, is known for containing high levels of mercury, a common feature of large man-made (Read more…)