Feds say all fisheries must operate within the commercial season. Mike Sack says ‘not going to happen’

Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan said in a statement on Wednesday that Ottawa will not issue licenses to fisheries that operate outside the federal commercial season. Last fall, the Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia launched its own self regulated, rights based lobster fishery outside the federal fishing season, sparking a violent backlash from commercial fishers. Sack says the federal government has no right to impose its rules and regulations on the Mi’kmaw, and that Sipekne’katik’s fishery will be back this year — bigger and better than ever. >click to read< 07:51

One Response to Feds say all fisheries must operate within the commercial season. Mike Sack says ‘not going to happen’

  1. Helen Flemming, says:

    Go by the rules that local fishers must go by in order to save the industry . That is not difficult to understand and help enforce. Get used to rules — there are rules in everything in life. Same as speed limits, and rules in everything around and for our protection .

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