Disclosure documents filed by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Federal Court reveal the breadth of unauthorized Indigenous harvesting in the chaotic and aborted 2023 Maritime fishery for baby eels or elvers.
The federal Fisheries Department says it is reviewing last week s court ruling that affirms the government s transfer of part of the lucrative Maritime elver fishery quota to First Nations fishers in 2022.
The Federal Court has rejected an attempt to overturn Ottawa s decision in 2022 to reallocate part of the lucrative elver fishery quota to First Nations.
The Federal Court of Canada ruled the process used by the minister of Fisheries and Oceans in 2022 was fair, reasonable and within ministerial discretion to manage the fishery.
A week and a half after Wine Harbour Fisheries was ordered to pull its baby eel or elver nets out of the water, poachers are at work on the Liscombe River 170 kilometers from Halifax on the Eastern Shore.