FISH WAR bonus content: NWIFC Chairman Ed Johnstone

Ed Johnstone has served as NWIFC chairman since late 2021, and before that, he served as NWIFC treasurer and was the policy representative for Quinault Indian Nation.

His interview about the Treaty Rights at Risk initiative was added to the Tribal Voices Archive Project in 2012.

Johnstone was interviewed for the 2024 documentary FISH WAR, which tells the story of the tribes in the Pacific Northwest from treaty times to the modern age of co-management.

 

Below is Johnstone’s extended interview from FISH WAR.

To hear more from the tribal leaders, fishers, managers and attorneys featured in FISH WAR, the extended interviews from the film are available on archive.org.