Our company is a new Ocean Stewardship and Biotechnology company. We create knowledge and foster understanding needed to practice stewardship of ocean pastures. Ocean pastures are much like pastures and ranges found on land; they are complex ecological communities of plants and animals however the “grass” of our ocean pasture is phyto-plankton. This ‘Tang Gwan’ ocean pasture requires the same sort of caring management as terrestrial range and pasture lands including: resource surveys, ecosystem management through multiple use planning, restoration of damaged regions, and careful sustainable harvests. As stewards of our living pastures a cornucopia of rewards become available.
We are a private partnership empowered and funded by the Old Massett Village Council of the Haida First Nation (the majority stockholder). Old Massett is a province and village on the northern end of the islands forming half of the sovereign Nation of Haida Gwaii. According to legend, Haida Gwaii, our misty isles lie at the edge of the world and is the place where time began. It’s hard to miss the spiritual, even mystical, nature of the place.
Our company draws its strength and competence from the traditional ties its people have to homes of land and sea as well as the best of modern world understanding of science and technology. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. We are working to achieve a state of wisdom in, with, and on behalf of the natural world and all its inhabitants… plants, animals, people, and those mythical spiritual in-betweens like “Salmon Boy.”