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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Posted: Jan 07, 2021 3:20 PM AT | Last Updated: January 8
The Northern Pulp mill in Abercrombie Point, N.S., first opened in the 1960s and was a staple of the forestry industry until it closed last January.(Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
Northern Pulp what was Nova Scotia s largest pulp and paper mill until it was forced by the provincial government to close last year says it s engaging with the community in its quest to reopen, but some say they ve been left out of the process.
Others are refusing to work with the mill.
The Pictou County mill, now insolvent, has been reporting to a judge at the Supreme Court of British Columbia since July as part of creditor protection proceedings. In a series of submissions between July and December, the mill reported on activity of an environmental liaison committee.
HILLSBURN, N.S. - One of the six missing scallop fishers was found dead late Tuesday evening as teams search the shores near a Nova Scotia village for the remaining five and community members struggle to remain hopeful.
Near the scene along the Bay of Fundy, Rev. Bob Elliott, the pastor of the Hillsburn United Baptist Church, said fears of the worst were mounting for the missing scallop dragger Chief William Saulis. If you re a praying person, you should be praying now, the minister said in an interview Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, two empty life-rafts from the dragger washed ashore near his church in the village of about 250 people.