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Moderate livelihood fishery launched by First Nation in Cape Breton
Indigenous lobster boats head from the harbour in Saulnierville, N.S. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS /Andrew Vaughan
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Rebuilding fisheries and wild fish stocks for coastal First Nations would be reconciliation in action
Christine Smith-Martin and Marilyn Slett
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Interior Fraser steelhead face extinction, warn B.C. fishing, conservation groups
A steelhead is shown in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Watershed Watch Salmon Society-Craig Orr **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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First Canadian-grown genetically modified Atlantic salmon being harvested and sold
Peter Bowyer, facility manager at AquaBounty Technologies, holds one of the last batch of conventional Atlantic salmon raised at the commercial fish farm in Albany, Ind., Wednesday, June 19, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Michael Conroy
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Federal officials change tactics as lobster fishing fight heats up in Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq fishing boats are seen moored at the wharf in Saulnierville, N.S. as a part of the Sipekne'katik First Nation's moderate-livelihood fishery on Tuesday, September 7, 2021. Darren Calabrese/The Globe and Mail
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Indigenous chief calls for recognition of fishing treaty rights ahead of elections
Sipekne'katik First Nation Chief Mike Sack provides an update on the community's planned fishing season in Indian Brook, N.S. on Thursday, May 27, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Ottawa to close 60 per cent of commercial salmon fisheries in bid to conserve stocks
A salmon leaps out of a vessel being used to transport salmon up the Fraser River with a helicopter past a massive rock slide on the river near Big Bar, west of Clinton, B.C., on July 24, 2019. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says Ottawa has awarded a contract that would see a permanent fishway built to help fish migrate past the site of the Big Bar landslide along a remote stretch of British Columbia's Fraser River. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Canada launches $647.1-million strategy to stave off Pacific wild salmon collapse
Spawning sockeye salmon, a species of pacific salmon, are seen making their way up the Adams River in Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park near Chase, B.C., Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. Five Western British Columbia First Nations are challenging a federal decision on salmon fishing in their territories this year, and they are accusing federal fisheries officials of systemic racism in the way they have been treated. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Climate change rarely factored into Atlantic Canada’s fisheries management, report finds
Fishing boats, loaded with traps, head from port in West Dover, N.S., on Nov. 26, 2019.
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Mi’kmaq First Nation in N.S. says federal fisheries officers have seized lobster traps
Members of the Potlotek First Nation carry bait boxes as they prepare to head out into St. Peters Bay from the wharf in St. Peter’s, N.S., to participate in a self-regulated commercial lobster fishery on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, which is Treaty Day. The Mi'kmaq First Nation in Cape Breton is criticizing the seizure of 37 lobster traps set today by a fisher from their community. THE CANADIAN PRESS /Andrew Vaughan
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Ottawa, Mi’kmaq community on collision course over plan for second lobster season
Sipekne'katik First Nation Chief Michael Sack, right, presents the first lobster licence and trap tags to Randy Sack, son of the late Donald Marshall Jr., on the wharf in Saulnierville, N.S., on Sept. 17, 2020.
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Mi’kmaq fisher argues Ottawa becoming more aggressive in seizures of Indigenous gear
Indigenous fisherman Robert Syliboy stands on the wharf in Saulnierville, N.S. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS /Andrew Vaughan
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Canada-U.S. dispute emerges over right whale killed by entanglement with fishing gear
In this March 28, 2018, file photo, a North Atlantic right whale appears at the surface of Cape Cod Bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass. Canadian fisheries officials are challenging a draft report from their American colleagues that alleges fishing gear from Canada is to blame for the entanglement of a North Atlantic right whale found dead off South Carolina. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Michael Dwyer, File
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Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq chiefs say Ottawa’s new fisheries plan is unacceptable
Indigenous fishermen head from the harbour in Saulnierville, N.S. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS /Andrew Vaughan
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Ottawa outlines plan to have Indigenous fishers take part in Nova Scotia’s commercial season
Sipekne'katik First Nation boats are seen in Saulnierville, N.S. on Sunday, September 20, 2020. A Nova Scotia First Nation has filed a legal action against the province over a provincial regulation that limits the ability of the band to sell its lobster catch without a federal licence.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark O'Neill
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Brexit red tape a ‘catastrophe’ for Scottish fisheries that export to EU
A member of the crew of of the trawler 'Good Fellowship' poses with a handful of langoustines as they process the day's catch after berthing in Eyemouth Harbour in the Scottish Borders on December 16, 2020. - Scottish fishermen specialising in shellfish destined for the tables of some of Europe's top restaurants and hotels fear that extra red tape at Channel ports from January 1 when the UK leaves the Single Market will slow down the supply chain and put their lucrative but perishable cargo at risk. (Photo by Andy Buchanan / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY STUART GRAHAM (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Nova Scotia lobster fishing season underway as First Nation fishers to sit out
Fireworks explode as boats loaded with traps head from the harbour in West Dover, N.S., Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Draft fishery deal possibly a ‘historic recognition’ of treaty rights, says Mi’kmaq chief
Chief Mike Sack of the Sipekne'katik First Nation speaks with the media in front of the Saulnierville Harbour, in Saulnierville, Nova Scotia, Canada October 18, 2020. Non-native commercial fishermen have been protesting against an Indigenous lobster fishery. Picture taken October 18, 2020. REUTERS/John Morris
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Indigenous leader says trouble is brewing ahead of Nova Scotia’s fall lobster season
Chief Mike Sack of the Sipekne'katik First Nation speaks with the media in front of the Saulnierville Harbour, in Saulnierville, Nova Scotia, Canada October 18, 2020. Non-native commercial fishermen have been protesting against an Indigenous lobster fishery. Picture taken October 18, 2020. REUTERS/John Morris
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Fisheries ordered to temporarily close as endangered right whales detected off Nova Scotia coast
A North Atlantic right whale surfaces off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., on March 28, 2018.
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Nova Scotia RCMP say man faces assault charges in violent clash at lobster pound
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N.S. Mi’kmaq chiefs demand stop of alleged federal plans to seize lobster traps
Indigenous fishermen adjust lines on their boat in Saulnierville, N.S. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Tensions remain high over an Indigenous-led lobster fishery that has been the source of conflict with non-Indigenous fishermen. THE CANADIAN PRESS /Andrew Vaughan
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Mi’kmaq lobster fishery in Nova Scotia grows to 10 boats from seven
Members of the Sipekne'katik First Nation load lobster traps on the wharf in Saulnierville, N.S., after launching its own self-regulated fishery on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. When Jaime Battiste was in his early 20s, cable news channels were full of images of Mi'kmaq fishermen in New Brunswick battling federal fisheries officers over seized lobster traps. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Fishermen haul traps in Nova Scotia Indigenous lobster fishery, RCMP provide security
Non-indigenous boats protest the launch of a Mi'kmaq self-regulated fishery by members of the Sipekne'katik First Nation, in Saulnierville, N.S., on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. The First Nation says a 1999 Supreme Court of Canada ruling, known as the Marshall decision, granted the Mi'kmaq the right to catch and sell lobster outside of the regular fishing season. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Underwater microphones help save endangered right whales – at a cost to fishermen
In this Wednesday March 28, 2018 photo, a North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass. A study of vessel speeds in the Cabot Strait shows that two-thirds are not complying with a voluntary speed restriction meant to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales that migrate through the area. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Michael Dwyer
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Five B.C. First Nations say federal salmon decision shows systemic racism
Spawning sockeye salmon, a species of pacific salmon, are seen making their way up the Adams River in Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park near Chase, B.C., Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. Five Western British Columbia First Nations are challenging a federal decision on salmon fishing in their territories this year, and they are accusing federal fisheries officials of systemic racism in the way they have been treated. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Ottawa outlines $469-million support program for fish harvesters
An Atlantic salmon is seen during a Department of Fisheries and Oceans fish health audit at the Okisollo fish farm near Campbell River, B.C. Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Newfoundland and Labrador has reinstated aquaculture licenses at southern Newfoundland sites where 2.6 million salmon died in sea pens last year.THE CANADIAN PRESS /Jonathan Hayward
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Ottawa green lights funding for eight more projects aimed at wild salmon restoration
Stuart LePage, of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, sprints to place a salmon in a vessel to be lifted by a helicopter and transported up the Fraser River past a massive rock slide near Big Bar, west of Clinton, B.C., on July 24, 2019. Ottawa has announced funding for eight more projects as part of the B.C. Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund.
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BC Wildlife Federation decries Ottawa’s ‘extreme’ fishing limits
Rick Yen is silhouetted as he casts a rod while fishing for salmon near the mouth of the Capilano River off Ambleside Park at sunset in West Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday August 25, 2015. In April, Federal Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced a recreational catch-and-release fishery until mid-July to allow maximum numbers of chinook salmon to reach their spawning grounds, followed by catch retention limits of up to two chinook depending on the fishing area and time of year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Quiet Salish Sea gives scientists chance to study endangered killer whales
Quiet Salish Sea gives scientists chance to study endangered killer whales
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‘Salmon cannon’ up and running at B.C. landslide, though fish slow to arrive this year
Stuart LePage, of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, sprints to place a salmon in a vessel to be lifted by a helicopter and transported up the Fraser River past a massive rock slide near Big Bar, west of Clinton, B.C., on July 24, 2019.
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Rock slide caused ‘almost complete loss’ of early salmon runs at Fraser River
Workers are seen on the cliff at the site of a massive rock slide on the Fraser River near Big Bar, west of Clinton, B.C., on July 24, 2019. Officials with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans say early arriving runs of Stuart and Chinook salmon were nearly wiped out after reaching the massive landslide along British Columbia's Fraser River last year.
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EU ready to ease fisheries’ demands in Brexit talks: sources
Workers fillet mackerels in a fish-processing plant in the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, on Jan. 29, 2020.
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Parts of 'salmon cannon’ arrive soon at Fraser River landslide
Stuart LePage, of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, sprints to place a salmon in a vessel to be lifted by a helicopter and transported up the Fraser River past a massive rock slide near Big Bar, west of Clinton, B.C., on July 24, 2019. Parts of a pneumatic fish pump dubbed the salmon cannon have arrived at the site of a massive landslide along British Columbia's Fraser River, where Fisheries and Oceans Canada expects some salmon to begin arriving soon.