Expect more clashes like the Nova Scotia lobster dispute as Canadians’ rights collide

May 7, 2021 Canada

The ongoing dispute between a Mi’kmaq community and non-Indigenous lobster fishers in Nova Scotia seems like a throwback to a darker and more racist time. We were supposed to have come a long way since that time. So it might seem like this fishery dispute is a throwback, a sign of how far we still have to go in order to truly end racism towards Indigenous peoples and protect their rights in Canada. But unfortunately this dispute isn’t a throwback; it’s probably a look-ahead. This is because the Canadian approach to equality and Indigenous rights, an approach that is baked into our difficult-to-change Constitution and which has been taken up with gusto by the Supreme Court, is based on two opposing views of rights. >click to read< 09:45

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2 Responses to Expect more clashes like the Nova Scotia lobster dispute as Canadians’ rights collide

Garvin Symonds says:

May 22, 2021 at 5:14 pm

There is a season for a reason..the dispute has nothing to do with race but is fully focused on conservation of the lobster stocks…

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STRIPEDBASSHOLE says:

May 22, 2021 at 9:20 pm

Now they have the UN involved… Obama had agenda 21 on his mind early on that pretty much killed the N.E. fisheries… Then the Obama Ocean policy where he stole our Oceans and sold us out Leasing our fertile sustainable Ocean bottom… The future Green abandon Wind-Farm dumping grounds… I’d much rather see Canadian Hydro-Power here!!! Watch your back!!!
Regards,
-SBH-

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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