DFO Says 'Clear Indications' of Abuse in First Nations Lobster Fishery
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [CBC News] By Paul Withers - September 21, 2017
Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans says there are "clear indications" of abuse in the First Nations food, social and ceremonial lobster fishery underway this summer in St. Marys Bay, N.S.
Since June, non-Indigenous lobster fishermen have complained that some Indigenous fishermen are using the fishery to cloak a black market lobster fishery.
"They are making it clear DFO has to step in," said Morley Knight, assistant deputy Minister with the Department...
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