Three Liberal fisheries ministers, senior DFO staff sued by elver licence holder
The company that bought Donald Marshall Jr.’s eels is suing three Liberal fisheries ministers, along with a host of the federal fisheries department’s top brass. South Shore Trading Company, a commercial elver licence holder based in Wentworth and led by President Mitchell Feigenbaum, filed the suit in the Court of King’s Bench of New Brunswick on Monday. The suit’s statement of claim accuses Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) staff and political leaders of fraudulent misrepresentation and making false and misleading statements to commercial elver licence holders, along with the intentional neglect of duties in their management of the lucrative fishery for juvenile American eels. It comes after a March 28 Federal Court decision found DFO’s taking quota from commercial licence holders and transferring it to First Nations without consultation of the former was “procedurally unfair.” more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 12:24
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