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Contested waters : the struggle for rights and reconciliation in the Atlantic fishery / edited by Fred Wien and Rick Williams.

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Nimbus Publishing, 2022.

Fisheries -- Nova Scotia.

Fishery law and legislation -- Nova Scotia.

Fishery policy -- Nova Scotia.

Lobster fisheries -- Law and legislation -- Nova Scotia.

First Nations -- Fishing -- Nova Scotia.

First Nations -- Fishing -- Law and legislation -- Nova Scotia.

9781774711149 (lib. bdg.)

244 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-244).

Canadians were shocked in the fall of 2020 by news coverage of non-Indigenous crowds threatening Mi'kmaw fish harvesters and burning boats and plant buildings in southwest Nova Scotia. The crisis began when a few Mi'kmaq Nations began to issue their own licenses to community members to conduct small-scale lobster fishing to earn "moderate livelihoods," a treaty right recognized in the Marshall ruling. Non-Indigenous harvesters reacted, some of them violently, against the idea of a new fishery operating outside DFO-regulated licensing, seasons, and fishing zones. With the major issues still unresolved, numerous flashpoints hold potential for future conflict. The question now looms: where do we go from here? With contributions from Mi'kmaw leaders, academic researchers, legal experts, non-Indigenous industry leaders, and other knowledgeable observers on all sides of the conflict, Contested Waters: The Struggle for Rights and Reconciliation in the Atlantic Fishery provides a respectful and realistic examination of Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives with the goal of encouraging dialogue and a shared search for lasting solutions.

Williams, Rick, 1945-

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