Tensions over lobster fishing by Indigenous harvesters in St. Marys Bay, N.S, boiled over on the weekend with shouting, scuffling and two arrests on a wharf used by the Sipekne'katik band.
One man grabs another by the neck during a confrontation over lobster fishing in St. Marys Bay, N.S., on Saturday.
RCMP arrested and later released two men in separate assaults — one for pushing and the other for grabbing someone by the neck."Investigators spoke with the victims who stated they did not want criminal charges to proceed. The 34-year-old and 39-year-old men were later released and apologized to the victims," RCMP spokesman Cpl. Guillaume Tremblay said in a release on Sunday.
"I mean the [food, social and ceremonial] tags, we recognize that, but you can't go and catch 10,000 pounds a night on a FSC tag. There's no way. You see what happened in 2020," LeBlanc told Radio-Canada on Saturday.Rejecting Canadian government authority "We're treaty fishing. We're fishing a food, social ceremonial licence provided to us by the Sipekne'katik Band. We're just trying to get food for our people and make a little bit of a living and exercise our treaty right. That's the main thing in being here," Sipekne'katik member Keagan Sack said on Saturday in Saulnierville.On Monday, Cpl.
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