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logo 11/28/2024 7:50:15 AM     
More than 50 Indigenous fish harvesters in the Maritimes face charges or on trial 
By Michael MacDonald CA Source: CBC News 10/15/2023
Michael MacDonald
Credit: Robert Short/CBC
Three years after a First Nation started a self-regulated lobster fishery that sparked protests and violence in Nova Scotia, federal prosecutors are pressing ahead with charges against dozens of Indigenous fishers, some of whom are planning constitutional challenges.
 

On Sept. 17, 2020, the Sipekne'katik First Nation issued five lobster licences to its members, saying they could trap and sell their catch outside the federally regulated season.

The bold move came exactly 21 years after the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed the treaty right of Indigenous groups in Eastern Canada to hunt and fish for a moderate livelihood, but interpretations of that landmark ruling remain in dispute.

 
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