Two parts: 20 years ago the Supreme Court ruled on Mi’kmaq fishing rights, so what has changed?

December 14, 2019 Canada, International News

Early on a warm morning in mid-August, Marilyn-Leigh Francis eyes the Coast Guard boat at the wharf in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Word around the wharf is that the DFO officers will be hauling up any lobster traps that aren’t tagged for the Mi’kmaw food fishery season that’s underway. For the last four years, Francis has harvested lobster, outside of the rules set by the DFO. No licence. No tags. She writes her name and Treaty 1752 on her buoys. Francis walks up to one of the DFO officers, introduces herself, and asks, “I was just wondering if you guys were seizing gear today?” The officer says he doesn’t know. But for the rest of summer and into the early fall, the DFO was busy seizing traps. 2 Videos, click to read and watch, >Part 1<, and >Part 2< 12:07

DFO, Donald Marshall, fishing rights, Marilyn-Leigh Francis, Mi’kmaq fishing rights, Rights Reconciliation Agreements, Supreme Court

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date
December 2024

M T W T F S S

1

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20 21 22

23 24 25 26 27 28 29

30 31

« Nov

December 2024
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
	1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31

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

Recent Posts
- Think you’re eating tuna? Think again – Food experts surprised at lack of concern over mislabelled fish in Canada
  
  While controversy over horsemeat in the European beef and pork supply has captivated people around the world, food experts say Canadian consumers are blasé about mislabelled Read More »
- Corey Arnold’s best shot: a horse and a cat go fishing for crab
  
  Everyone looks forward to Halloween. You get a bunch of crabbers in a bar and it gets pretty crazy. I’d bought this horse-head costume in advance and, Read More »
- Letter: Report shows flaws in NOAA, Pew stands by Carmine Gorga, Gloucester, Ma
  
  I have heard it so many times, that I call it the Pew Mantra. What is the evidence that organization’s environmentalists offer to prove that family Read More »
- Biden-Harris Administration’s First Offshore Wind Lease in Maine
  
  The Department of the Interior today announced it will hold an offshore wind energy lease sale on Oct. 29, 2024, for eight areas on the Outer Read More »
- Greenpeace UK blocked in Poole Harbour ahead of protest
  
  Greenpeace UK has been thwarted in their attempts to extend its boulder barrier in the South West Deeps to block industrial fishing, which it says damages Read More »
- MAFMC/ASMFC Public Hearings on Summer Flounder Commercial Issues Amendment
  
  The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council and Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission are seeking public input on a draft amendment to address several potential changes to the Read More »
- Second meeting set in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Services sea turtle habitat proposal
  
  The critical habitat designation is a reaction to lawsuits from special interest environmental groups and more research is needed before any such action is taken. The Fish Read More »
- Brittany fishing company La Houle builds for the future
  
  Brittany fishing company La Houle has been facing a case of invest or die, according to managing director Jacques Pichon, and a new addition marks the Read More »
- Blood, guts and albacore -‘Battlefish’ series gives glimpse into gritty world of West Coast commercial albacore fishing
  
  It’s blood, hooks, aching backs and sun-burnt skin. And cussing. Lots of cussing. A new Netflix series, “Battlefish,” debuted Friday, Sept. 21, giving audiences a raw Read More »
- Copper disaster
  
  No sooner did the burst of sockeye salmon into the Copper River begin than it was over. With the famous salmon river in eastern Alaska again Read More »
- What’s on the line? Atlantic bluefin tuna
  
  The Atlantic bluefin tuna season ranks high enough up on the fishing world calendar that the fish even has two of its own television shows. This Read More »
- DRIVE TO DRILL: The growing resistance to Atlantic oil and gas drilling
  
  (The third in a three-part series. To read the first, “Energy lobbyists behind governors’ crusade for Atlantic drilling,” click here. To read the second, “Gov. McCrory Read More »
- 2016 Blessing of the Fleet – Tradition in Chauvin draws crowds
  
  Sunny skies and a light breeze greeted local fishermen and their families as they gathered Sunday morning to pray for a safe and bountiful brown-shrimp season Read More »
- The 2024 Maine Lobster Boat Races Schedule Is Out
  
  Dreaming of warmer days outside? I think we all are, especially when one yearly Maine tradition returns for another year. Well, here we are at the Read More »
- A Perfect Pairing. A Q&A session with John Deere and Mike Blocher of North River Boats
  
  North River Boats in Roseburg, Oregon is one of the largest heavy-gauge aluminum boat manufacturers in the United States with an estimated 10,000 vessels plying the Read More »
- Questionable Management of Commercial Fisheries – US Senate candidate R.I. State Rep Bobby Nardolillo
  
  Point Judith: State Representative Bobby Nardolillo, a GOP Candidate for the US Senate in 2018, made a formal statement today on the plight of the Ocean Read More »
- All-time high for Norwegian seafood
  
  “2021 was another exciting export year for Norwegian seafood. We are in the very favorable position of having products in high demand the world over, even Read More »
- Persistence, ability to overcome adversity keeps this local trawler going after 30+ years
  
  The job of a trawler is the same every day: catch shrimp. But the opponent one is up against (weather, seas, Mother Nature) is always slightly Read More »
- Alaska task force’s final report calls for new rules and more research to address seafood bycatch
  
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who created the task force a year ago, released the group’s final report late Thursday. “I look forward to working with task force Read More »
- Busy readying boats at Digby wharf
  
  LFA 35 lobster season opens Wednesday in upper Bay of Fundy Area lobster fishermen are busy at Digby’s wharf today, loading traps in preparation for the Read More »
- Wanted: NC fishermen to collect lost crab pots, other fishing gear
  
  The collection is scheduled to begin Jan. 19 in an area from Currituck Sound southward to Oregon Inlet. The federation will pay fishermen $300 a day Read More »
- Obama will propose vast expansion of Pacific Ocean marine sanctuary
  
  The announcement — details of which were provided to The Washington Post — is part of a broader push on maritime issues by an administration that Read More »
- Center for Biological Diversity, Oceana Inc and Turtle Island Restoration Sue the NMFS/F+WS (us) AGAIN! Loggerhead’s at the brink of extinctio………
  
  The lawsuit said loggerheads were already being pushed to the brink of extinction and that the government had failed to comply with deadlines set under the Read More »
- Long IIsland: Effort to salvage juvenile scallops called off for lack of candidates
  
  An unprecedented effort by conservationists, baymen and the state to save a vulnerable population of juvenile scallops by transferring them to deeper waters has been called Read More »
- The cod delusion – A moratorium on cod fishing that was supposed to last two years has now lasted 30.
  
  Three decades on, the latest DFO science still puts Atlantic cod in the critical zone. “I hope politicians and bureaucrats in Ottawa have learned something, because Read More »