Indigenous Lobster Fishery

• Conflict over new Indigenous lobster fishery continues to smoulder amid some progress

  Federal conservation officers seized more than 7,000 lobster traps in the two years since violence flared in Nova Scotia when a First Nation started a moderate livelihood fishery.

  Canada

  Dec 19, 2022
  
• 2 more N.S. Mi’kmaq communities strike deals with Ottawa to set lobster traps

  Ottawa said it struck interim understandings with Bear River and Annapolis Valley First Nations that would allow fishers to set 70 traps per vessel and to legally sell their catch.

  Canada

  Oct 13, 2021
  
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• RCMP investigating after Mi’kmaq lobster fishing boats cut loose from wharf in N.S.

  Sipekne'katik First Nation Chief Mike Sack has alleged the boats were cast adrift to damage the band's property and intimidate its fishers.

  Canada

  Aug 6, 2021