Commercial licence holder sues Indigenous fishers over lucrative N B elver fishery cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
RCMP in Nova Scotia have issued a provincewide arrest warrant for a Dartmouth man following a shooting that Mi'kmaw leaders say is related to Nova Scotia's lucrative elver fishery.
The federal government may cut the commercial elver quota by 14 per cent this year to increase Mi'kmaw access to the lucrative Maritime fishery for baby eels.
Posted: Dec 14, 2020 4:58 PM AT | Last Updated: December 14, 2020
Lobster pound owner Sheng Ren Zheng enters the courthouse in Digby, N.S., in January. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
The owner of a lobster pound in Nova Scotia and his company were fined a total of $100,000 Monday for illegally selling lobster harvested by First Nations.
Shen Ren Zheng was caught shipping lobsters to China in 2017 that were harvested by a member of the Sipekne katik band under multiple food, social and ceremonial licences in St. Marys Bay in southwest Nova Scotia. The licence conditions prevent the sale of the catch.
In handing down the sentence, provincial court judge Tim Landry said the offence was intentional illegal act and rejected Zheng s claim that it was an accident.