Moderate Livelihood 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
  
• Nova Scotia cabinet minister’s defeat a signal fisheries unrest needs resolution

  Bernadette Jordan, who was the federal fisheries minister, lost her seat to Conservative Rick Perkins in the Canada election Monday night.

  Canada

  Sep 21, 2021
  
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• Federal enforcement in N.S. fisheries dispute ‘political’: Mi’kmaw lawyer

  'We ask that any government officials here respect First Nations and their rights, not only today when I’m out on the boat, but every single day.'

  Canada

  Sep 20, 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
• Indigenous lobster fishing boats cut loose from wharf in Nova Scotia: First Nation

  The band attracted national attention last fall when it started a separate, self-regulated commercial lobster fishery on St. Marys Bay.

  Canada

  Aug 5, 2021
• U.N. committee to consider racism complaint of N.S. Mi’kmaq fishers against Ottawa

  Members of the Sipekne'katik band encountered violence from non-Indigenous residents last fall, resulting in the destruction of a lobster pound and the burning of a van.

  Canada

  May 10, 2021
• Mi’kmaq lawsuit alleges intimidation, harassment in Nova Scotia lobster fishery

  None of the allegations have been proven in court and none of the defendants named in the suit could be immediately reached for comment.

  Canada

  Mar 30, 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
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• Cape Breton’s Potlotek First Nation to sue Nova Scotia over livelihood fisher

  The notice says provincial regulations infringe on Potlotek's treaty right to sell, purchase and process fish and prevents Mi'kmaq fishers from exercising their treaty right.

  Canada

  Feb 17, 2021
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• Sipekne’katik files court action against Nova Scotia to claim fishing treaty right

  The court action asks the court to declare that provincial fishing regulations are unconstitutional and contrary to Treaty Rights.

  Politics

  Feb 3, 2021