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Offline Squidward von Squidderson

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Re: Violence on the east coast
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2020, 08:11:41 pm »
good on ya member squiggy, good on ya! Thanks for succinctly explaining the issue: as you state, the indigenous have an all-year/all-season right while the non-indigenous fishers have a partial-year/only in-season privilege. Good on ya!

I didn’t say the right was an unfettered year-round right.  The courts have ruled that restrictions can be put in place by the feds for conservation reasons.  But, being a right, any infringements have to be justified.

That’s why I said that, in lieu of the same restrictions, enough lobsters should be removed from the commercial fishery to satisfy the right so it doesn’t compromise conservation.

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... known as Marshall 2. In it, the court clarified that the federal government, through DFO, could still regulate Mi'kmaw harvesting for the purposes of conservation, if it consulted with the First Nation and could justify the regulations.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/mi-kmaq-self-regulated-moderate-livelihood-fishery-1.5727622
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