Indigenous Fishing Rights

• New fisheries report raises hope for Indigenous communities, but angers industry

  There are concerns the report titled 'Peace on the Water' is stoking anger in communities where lobster is a livelihood.

  Canada

  Jul 19, 2022
  
• Restorative justice to be used in resolving charges in Nova Scotia lobster pound riot

  Charges of break and enter and mischief were initially announced by the RCMP in January 2021 in connection with the 2020 incident at the lobster pound in Middle West Pubnico, N.S.

  Canada

  Feb 11, 2022
  
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• Treaty rights an election issue: Indigenous chief

  Chief Mike Sack of the Sipekne'katik First Nation says the impacts of colonization and the residential school system have had a stranglehold on Indigenous communities for decades.

  Canada

  Aug 7, 2021
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• Listuguj First Nation signs 5-year fisheries agreement with Ottawa

  An Indigenous community in eastern Quebec has signed a five-year agreement with Ottawa to develop a collaborative approach to governing the band's fisheries.

  Canada

  Apr 19, 2021
• Commercial fishers seek intervener status in lawsuit over Indigenous fishing rights

  The Mi'kmaq say provincial regulations limiting the purchase of fish products harvested outside the federally regulated fishing season infringe on their treaty rights.

  Consumer

  Feb 22, 2021
• ‘Please don’t paint my riding as racist,’ Nova Scotia MP says amid Mi’kmaq lobster debate

  The only Mi'kmaq politician sitting in Parliament, meanwhile, expressed optimism during the debate that lawmakers could reach a solution. 

  Canada

  Oct 20, 2020
• Mobs are attacking Indigenous fisheries in Nova Scotia. Here’s what’s going on

  Tensions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous fishermen have come to a head over fishing rights in Nova Scotia — a dispute that has a history spanning hundreds of years.

  Canada

  Oct 19, 2020
• ‘We need a clear plan’: MPs clash during emergency debate on Mi’kmaw lobster fisheries

  Four cabinet ministers and the NDP requested the emergency debate in the House of Commons over a treaty dispute between commercial fishermen and Mi'kmaq fishers.

  Canada

  Oct 19, 2020