Numlock News: November 10, 2020 • Heat, Lobster, Restaurants
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By Walt Hickey Lobster An increasingly tense standoff in Canada between a First Nations tribe and commercial fishermen over the tribe’s right to fish out of season has come to an unexpected conclusion. Here was the issue: the Mi’kmaq tribe had treaty rights to derive income from the fishery, but the Department of Fisheries and Oceans continued to fine the tribe and confiscated equipment of members fishing out of season. The situation — particularly with non-Indigenous fishing industry employees, who said they thought the tribe should not be able to fish without some limitations as the stocks had been steadily declining — became more tense, leading to
Numlock News: November 10, 2020 • Heat, Lobster, Restaurants
Numlock News: November 10, 2020 • Heat…
Numlock News: November 10, 2020 • Heat, Lobster, Restaurants
By Walt Hickey Lobster An increasingly tense standoff in Canada between a First Nations tribe and commercial fishermen over the tribe’s right to fish out of season has come to an unexpected conclusion. Here was the issue: the Mi’kmaq tribe had treaty rights to derive income from the fishery, but the Department of Fisheries and Oceans continued to fine the tribe and confiscated equipment of members fishing out of season. The situation — particularly with non-Indigenous fishing industry employees, who said they thought the tribe should not be able to fish without some limitations as the stocks had been steadily declining — became more tense, leading to