N.B. First Nation Says Fishery Rights to Extend to U.S. Members
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [CBC NEWS] By Paul Withers - March 16, 2018
A southern New Brunswick First Nation says members of its band living in Maine share their treaty fishing rights — a position that could open Canadian waters to fishing by Indigenous people from the United States.
The Peskotomuhkati (Passamaquoddy) band straddles the Canada-United States border and members on the Canadian side are negotiating a food fishery with the federal government.
"The Peskotomuhkati say that all their people share their treaty rights ...
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