The chief of the Sipekne’katik First Nation said the boats were cast adrift from their berths in Weymouth North with the ‘intent to cause damage and intimidate the community’
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A First Nation in Nova Scotia says nine of its lobster fishing boats were purposely cut loose from a wharf earlier today.
Sack says the boats were ready to take part in the band’s food, social and ceremonial lobster fishery, which is regulated by federal rules but is not limited to a particular season.The band attracted national attention last fall when it started a separate, self-regulated commercial lobster fishery on St. Marys Bay, three months before the federally regulated season was scheduled to open.
As well, he noted that the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed those treaty rights in a landmark decision in 1999, known as the Marshall decision – but the court also said Ottawa retained the right to regulate the fisheries for conservation purposes. Disputes in Nova Scotia over the food, social and ceremonial fishery surfaced in 2017 when non-Indigenous fishermen started a series of peaceful protests to draw attention to their claims that a small faction of Indigenous fishers were selling their FCS catches.Story continues below advertisement
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