Mi'kmaq Fishers

• For Mi’kmaq fishers working within Ottawa’s baby eel rules, it’s a ‘peaceful’ season

  Some Mi'kmaq harvesters say working within Ottawa's quotas for the contentious baby eel fishery is helping calm the tense atmosphere in their river workplaces.

  Canada

  May 1, 2025
  
• ‘Starlight tour’: Mi’kmaq fisher allegedly dumped without boots or phone feared death

  Two Mi’kmaq fishers say they were dumped by federal fisheries officers far from home at 1 a.m. in Nova Scotia without footwear or phones.

  Canada

  Apr 3, 2024
  
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• Commercial fishers seek intervener status in lawsuit over Indigenous fishing rights

  The Mi'kmaq say provincial regulations limiting the purchase of fish products harvested outside the federally regulated fishing season infringe on their treaty rights.

  Consumer

  Feb 22, 2021
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• Sipekne’katik files court action against Nova Scotia to claim fishing treaty right

  The court action asks the court to declare that provincial fishing regulations are unconstitutional and contrary to Treaty Rights.

  Politics

  Feb 3, 2021
• Mi’kmaq solidarity rally held at Clearwater Seafood Market in Bedford

  Solidarity Kjipuktuk/Halifax says its rally will call attention to how Clearwater's operations threaten the Mi'kmaq livelihood fishing.

  Canada

  Nov 4, 2020
• ‘Please don’t paint my riding as racist,’ Nova Scotia MP says amid Mi’kmaq lobster debate

  The only Mi'kmaq politician sitting in Parliament, meanwhile, expressed optimism during the debate that lawmakers could reach a solution. 

  Canada

  Oct 20, 2020
• Additional RCMP officers deployed in N.S.: Public Safety Minister Bill Blair

  Blair said Nova Scotia RCMP are now able to draw on RCMP resources from neighbouring provinces within the Atlantic bubble.

  Canada

  Oct 19, 2020
• ‘We need a clear plan’: MPs clash during emergency debate on Mi’kmaw lobster fisheries

  Four cabinet ministers and the NDP requested the emergency debate in the House of Commons over a treaty dispute between commercial fishermen and Mi'kmaq fishers.

  Canada

  Oct 19, 2020
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• Sipekne’katik Chief Michael Sack says his people receive threats ‘daily’

  Chief Michael Sack talked this week's vandalism, the lobster pound fire and next steps for the self-regulated Moderate Livelihood Fishery.

  Canada

  Oct 18, 2020
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• Sipekne’katik First Nation calls for PM, RCMP to act after violence against moderate livelihood fishery

  A letter sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from Chief Michael Sack of the Sipekne'katik First Nation says the RCMP's 'inaction is encouraging these terrorist acts by vigilantes that feel they have free reign.'

  Canada

  Oct 15, 2020