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Mi’kmaw Netukulimk Moderate Living Fishery

February 3, 2021

Global News – The Sipekne’katik First Nation has filed a court action against the Attorney General of Nova Scotia to challenge a provincial regulation on purchasing fish products, saying it’s unconstitutional. This regulation orders that any fish products sold in Nova Scotia must be caught and registered under a commercial licence with the Department of Fisheries. The court action asks the court to declare that prohibitions against buying fish from Mi’kmaq, fishing outside of DFO’s commercial licence regime, and prohibiting Mi’kmaq to moderately fish outside of the commercial season, are unconstitutional and contrary to Treaty Rights.