Category Archives: Native fisheries
Property rights for white fishermen too
(October 10, 2000) Yo, you white Maritime lobster fishermen, get over it! The natives won; you lost. “A deal is a deal,” the Supreme Court stated last September. The Mi’kmaq have first dibs on the fishery; you get to divvy up most of what’s left. Continue reading
Dhaliwal: Lobster conservation ‘first priority’
(October 3, 2000) May I provide some facts relating to your editorial of Sept. 26 (Courting Disaster). Any time you need basic information, I would cordially invite you to contact officials of my department or the DFO Web site. You state that “only now that a federal election call is imminent are illegal lobster traps being seized — a year after they were first set.” This is inaccurate. Continue reading
Anger mounts
(October 1, 2000) Mi’kmaq lobster fishers are finding themselves in hot water for doing the same thing that the Supreme Court of Canada acquitted Donald Marshall, Jr. of doing a year ago. Continue reading
Lobster trap
(September 26, 2000) Phony conservation claims and sharp dealing by the federal fisheries minister foil justice for the natives of Burnt Church. Continue reading
Discussion Group – Cod don’t vote
(December 21, 1998) On July 2, 1992, Canada’s fisheries minister banned cod fishing off the northeast coast of Newfoundland and off the southern half of Labrador. The northern cod stock, once one of the richest in the world, had collapsed Continue reading
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