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Contested Waters: The Struggle for Rights and Reconciliation in the Atlantic Fishery

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Contested Waters: The Struggle for Rights and Reconciliation in the Atlantic Fishery - Williams, Richard (Editor), and Wien, Fred (Editor)
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"Canadians were shocked in the fall of 2020 by news coverage of non-Indigenous crowds threatening Mi'kmaw fish harvesters and burning boats and plant buildings in southwest Nova Scotia. The crisis began when a few Mi'kmaq Nations began to issue their own licenses to community members to conduct small-scale lobster fishing to earn "moderate livelihoods," a treaty right recognized in the Marshall ruling. Non-Indigenous harvesters reacted, some of them violently, against the idea of a new fishery operating outside DFO ...

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Contested Waters: The Struggle for Rights and Reconciliation in the Atlantic Fishery 2022, Nimbus Publishing Limited, Halifax

ISBN-13: 9781774711149

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