Fish harvester associations in southwestern Nova Scotia are withdrawing their support from the Kespukwitk Moderate Livelihood Understanding with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), citing “breaches of faith.”
Fisheries and Oceans Minister Joyce Murray shut the Maritime elver fishery down for 45 days on the weekend because of violence and rampant overfishing by unauthorized harvesters.
For a second year, the federal government is giving Mi'kmaw First Nations 14 per cent of the lucrative Maritime fishery for baby eels or elvers without compensating commercial licence holders.
The Potlotek First Nation and the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaw Chiefs are dropping a civil lawsuit against the federal government over moderate livelihood fishing.
Nova Scotia’s Lunenburg Doc Fest — which recently announced that it was partnering with the East Coast chapter of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) on the inaugural DOC Atlantic .