Tag Archives: Terrence Chambers
Assault trial stemming from Ecum Secum lobster dispute starts with surprise confession
Someone beat up Blair Fleet in his own Ecum Secum yard over a lobster dispute last spring. But who did it is even less clear after the first day of the trial of one of the fishermen accused of the assault. “So this is the first time you’ve heard that Jesse Asprey went to the police to admit he assaulted you?” defence attorney Colline Morrow asked the victim in Antigonish provincial court on Thursday. “No one ever told you?” “No,” replied Fleet. No one had apparently told the judge either. >click to read<09:29
Coast guard, DFO on scene after lobster boat ramming off Ecum Secum
Its hull repaired from the damage sustained when it was rammed by a rival fishing crew, the Joint Account floated at one of Ecum Secum’s wharves on Thursday. According to its owner, Tanya Chambers, each captain she has tried to hire over the past two days to fish her licence has backed out. “I’ve had three people say they were willing to take my vessel and be its sub-operator,” said Chambers. “They have all got numerous threatening phone calls that if they take my vessel or talk to Austin (Tanya’s husband) or Terrence (Tanya’s son), they will be killed.”>click to read<09:04
Lobster dispute boils over in Guysborough County
“Somebody’s going to be killed,” Austin Chambers hollered at the Mountie, pounding his fist into an open hand. The officer from the Sherbrooke detachment had been waiting on one of Ecum Secum’s wharves Wednesday afternoon to speak to Chambers about an escalating feud over lobster grounds between two sets of fishermen. Chambers arrived at the wharf in a rage, with lobster to unload and a story to tell. “He came right at us, would have split us right in two,” said Chambers. Meanwhile, at a wharf four kilometres away in Marie Joseph, Eric Pace had a different version of what transpired earlier Wednesday on the lobster grounds off Ecum Secum. >click to read<10:20
