Indigenous Chiefs Take Aim at Baby Eel Lawsuit Alleging Poaching
First Nations chiefs defending themselves in a lawsuit over the spoils of the baby eel fishery in New Brunswick have applied to court to have large sections of the legal action thrown out.
The defendants’ motion to strike parts of businesswoman Mary Ann Holland’s lawsuit will be heard at the Court of King's Bench in Burton, near Fredericton, on June 25.
At stake is a lucrative catch in southwestern New Brunswick worth millions of dollars that dozens of Indigenous and non-Indigenous workers...
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