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COVER STORY Casting for justice: . fish, Ian I and self-gove1'Jllle by Mike Milne The concrete dock disappears into the rocky shoreline as we motor east along Colpoys Bay in the early morning sun. The 14-foot open steel boat cuts through the calm water, limestone bluffs tower from the fore t behind us and two large wooded island rise out of Georgian Bay to the south. I'm hud- dled in the bow while Ken Johnston and his five-year-old on Jeremiah it quietly in the middle seat. Paul Jones, gripping the handle of an aging out- board motor, prays silently and drops tobacco over the waters. We're heading out to check his nets, set the day before in 70 to 100 feet of water. Made of nylon fi hing line, the nets are about three feet deep, with weights along the bottom and floats on the top, allowing the netting to float upright on the lake bottom. Jones has invited me to see how the fishing is done at Cape Croker, near Wiarton, Ont. 1be Chippewas of Na wash (members of the Ojibway tribe) have been charged with over- fishing, are defending their right to fish commercially, and al o face a provincial ban on fi h ale . Many of the fishermen have been forced onto welfare, but more than immediate financial survival i at stake. The Chippewas of Nawa h and Chippewas of Saugeen, a " i ter" band with a re erve near Southampton, Ont. (who together make up the Saugeen Ojibway Nations Territories), are fi11hting to secure commercial fishing quotas that make sense, but also the right to control fishing in the area. The Saugeen Ojibway want their right to elf-government, in the area of fi hing at least, recognized, and sup- port has come from the United Church' national human rights offi- cer, from Hamilton Conference, from Bruce Pre bytery (there are United Churche in both the Saugeen and Nawash communitie ) and from area United Church mini ters and lay peo- ple. The fight over fi hing also brings Saugeen Ojibway land claim - now under negotiation - into sha,per focu. Both ironworkers by trade, Jones