Canada’s DFO confronts Native fishermen

Canada’s DFO confronts Native fishermen

By Paul Molyneaux

Source: nationalfisherman

10/19/2023

Credit: Henry Bear

According to Henry Bear – past general manager of the Maliseet Nation’s commercial fishing fleet on Grand Manan Island, and past Maliseet Tribal Representative to the Maine House of Representatives – Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans took unwarranted action against Maine-based Passamaquoddy and Maliseet fishermen.

The Native fishermen were lobstering in Canadian waters of the Saint Croix River and Passamaquoddy Bay, which form part of the border between New Brunswick, Canada and Maine in the USA, when the DFO reportedly confiscated some of their traps and rammed boats.

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