Author: Vjosa Isai and Carolina Andrade
Published on: 02/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
Atlantic lobster caught by Bill Barlett, a Mi’kmaq fisherman, off the coast of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Slashed buoys, stolen lobster crates, mysterious fires are just some of the acts of vandalism on the wharves where lobster fishers have been locked in battle for more than three decades. The federal government has been reluctant to settle the politically fraught issue, alienating warring fishermen on both sides. Mr. Jobert operates a family-owned seafood distributor that packs live lobster for export. He believes he was targeted for ignoring orders over the last year to do business with people in the lobster industry who he believed had ties to criminals. The police have charged the two men with several crimes in connection to his case. Indigenous lobstermen from the Sipekne’katik First Nation set up a commercial fishery in Clare to assert what they say are ancestral rights to catch — and sell — lobster all year long. But criminals posing as lobster dealers started doing business with some of the Indigenous fishermen. A maritime fishing union, helped by private detectives, has traced illicit lobster shipments to local businesses. Canada did not recognize those rights for decades as various fisheries and regulations were established. The summertime restrictions were successfully challenged in the 1990s by a Mi’kmaq fisherman who had appealed illegal fishing charges. Canada, however, has only gone as far as granting individual lobster licenses to Indigenous groups allowing them to catch lobsters in the summer. Indigenous fishermen accused their white counterparts of being racist. In Clare, some lobster fishers and others involved in the industry say evidence gathered by private investigators strongly suggests that the tribe’s fishery is not following some standard regulations and procedures. "If it was, then why do it under the cover of darkness?" Michelle Glasgow, chief of the Sipekne’katik group, and the reserve’s lawyers declined to provide responses to written questions. Vjosa Isai is a reporter and researcher for The Times based in Toronto, where she covers news from across Canada. Young Haitians’ Lives Disrupted: Robbed of their education and their prospects for the future, legions of Haitian children are the overlooked victims of the gang violence that has crippled the country. In a remote Canadian city, a hardened detective and an angry rock star brought down two criminal rings that had produced thousands of fake paintings sold as works by a
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