Nova Scotia fishers, Indigenous stakeholders call for more dialogue amid violence

September 1, 2023 Canada

As Nova Scotia RCMP continues to investigate violence on a wharf in St. Mary’s Bay, stakeholders on both sides are calling for more conversation instead of violence. The Maritime Fishermen Union called on all levels of government, including fishers on both sides to get to the table. “Our largest concern is the conservation of the stock on St. Mary’s Bay,” Ruth Inniss, a fisheries adviser with the Maritime Fishermen Union, said. “We tried to bring all the players of the problem to the table to solve the problem. The problem clearly hasn’t been solved.” Video, >>click to read<< 09:04

call for more dialogue, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, fishers, Indigenous stakeholders, John Paul, Maritime Fishermen Union, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia RCMP, Sipekne’katik First Nation, St. Mary’s Bay region

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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.

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