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Mi’kmaw Netukulimk Moderate Living Fishery

September 18, 2020

Toronto Star – “In its 1999 Marshall decision – borne of a court case against Mi’kmaw fisherman and icon Donald Marshall – the Supreme Court affirmed the right of First Nations to hunt, fish and gather in pursuit of a “moderate livelihood.”” 21 years later, the federal government has failed to define “moderate livelihood. The Sipekne’katik First Nation has therefor created its own self-regulated moderate living” fishery issuing seven licenses