Its going to get more heated on the water back East..

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Was just about to post about this, been seeing it on the news a fair amount lately. If the fishery there is regulated like it is here im not surprised one bit, dfo is a failure at every level.
 
Worked with an Acadian who posts on Facebook about this almost daily.

government is gonna have real issues if they plan to treat First Nations in the east like they do here on the west.

The Supreme Court May of gave them a right to a modest living on the east coast but no one in the province is on the First Nation side and they are gonna need 24h RCMP protection if they continue.
 
wildmanyeah said:
Worked with an Acadian who posts on Facebook about this almost daily.

government is gonna have real issues if they plan to treat First Nations in the east like they do here on the west.

The Supreme Court May of gave them a right to a modest living on the east coast but no one in the province is on the First Nation side and they are gonna need 24h RCMP protection if they continue.
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Yup ^^^^
 
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“Moderate livelihood is not an illegal fishery” – Mi’kmaq fishermen question if reconciliation is real
https://nsadvocate.org/2020/09/22/m...fishermen-question-if-reconciliation-is-real/
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Lobster pound owner found guilty of illegally selling lobster

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...ng-guilty-illegally-selling-lobster-1.5701123

"The Chinese owner of a lobster pound in Nova Scotia has been found guilty of illegally selling lobster caught by Indigenous fishermen who were not allowed to sell their catch under the licences they held."
 
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...ial-fishermen-alleged-lobster-buyer-1.5732357

Fishermen haul up, dump Mi'kmaw lobster traps to protest moderate livelihood fishery
 
Did you notice that DFO charged the buyer (the lobster pound owner) - but not the Mi'kmaw fishers that sold him the lobster? There's a reason for that....
 
agentaqua said:
Did you notice that DFO charged the buyer (the lobster pound owner) - but not the Mi'kmaw fishers that sold him the lobster? There's a reason for that....
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First nations are immune to the justice system this is not new, Same story with "illegal" gillnet fisheries in the fraser.

Please don't link a thousand supreme court cases, I know why it is what it is
 
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Mi’kmaq lobster boats surrounded by Acadian commercial fishing vessels as traps are stolen, cut
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-ne...cial-fishing-vessels-as-traps-are-stolen-cut/[/QUOTE]

"Acadians (French: Acadiens) are the descendants of the French settlers, and sometimes the Indigenous peoples[1], of parts of Acadia (French: Acadie) in the northeastern region of North America comprising what is now the Canadian Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, the Gaspé peninsula in eastern Québec, and the Kennebec River in southern Maine.[a]"
 
agentaqua said:
Did you notice that DFO charged the buyer (the lobster pound owner) - but not the Mi'kmaw fishers that sold him the lobster? There's a reason for that....
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Easy answer, less court time, easier conviction, less controversy and both parties are guilty. Hopefully the same end result. Same theory police use for prostitution, arrest the Johns not the hookers. In a perfect world if you kill the market for the fish you kill the harvest, no one wants to work for nothing
 
Easy answer: "Right to a Moderate Livelihood" (for FNs). DFO does not want more any court rulings not in their favour, and have that one fleshed-out. Better not to kick that sleeping dog and go onto a softer mark.
 
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