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Mi’kmaw Netukulimk Moderate Living Fishery

September 21, 2021

Global News – …a flotilla of non-Indigenous fishermen removed about 350 lobster traps off the coast of southwestern Nova Scotia…under the watch of RCMP, coast guard boats and police helicopters. “The gear that we were collecting was what was in violation of the law,” Colin Sproul, President of the Bay of Fundy Inshore Fishermen’s Association said. “There’s nothing more to show that fishermen have the true, just, lawful position here than the fact that we conducted that activity yesterday and nobody stopped us.” What law is being broken: the deliberate theft and destruction of Indigenous “property” by white fisherman with the active support of the police and government authorities or the actions by authorities and government to deny Indigenous rights and title even when confirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada.