The T. Buck Suzuki Foundation works to ensure that fish bearing marshes, streams, rivers, lakes are not polluted, dammed, diverted, damaged or degraded.
Protecting the environment and fish habitat has always been a priority for the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union (UFAWU-CAW). In 1981, just 10 years after fishermen had waged a successful campaign to stop the damming of the Fraser River at Moran Canyon, the UFAWU worked with fishermen and environmentalists to launch the T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation.
Today, fishermen, fish plant workers and others in the commercial fishing industry continue to take an active part in the Foundation's campaigns while the foundation itself has earned a respected place in the growing environmental movement.