Fishtrap Bay

Fishtrap Bay (53˚33'14" 129˚01'19" E side of Hawkesbury I, opposite N entrance to Ursula Channel, S of Kitimat). According to former UBC anthropologist Jay Powell, the bay takes its name from a fishtrap located at this site in the 1880s, built to provide fish for a nearby saltery at the mouth of the Crab R. Fishtraps were made illegal in BC in 1889, but the pilings in the bay were still visible until the 1940s. The Haisla First Nation name for this geographical feature is Neqetu, meaning...

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