Posted: Mar 03, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: March 3
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans issued its position on the same day Sipekne katik First Nation took back possession of more than 200 traps seized by DFO last fall.(Paul Withers/CBC)
Ottawa will not license any Indigenous moderate livelihood fishery in Atlantic Canada unless it operates within the commercial season, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans said Wednesday, siding with a key demand from the region s commercial fishing industry, while angering Indigenous leaders.
The statement is a major development in the dispute over treaty rights-based fishing that sparked violence last fall when the Sipekne katik band launched its own self-regulated moderate livelihood lobster fishery.
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