Author Topic: Violence on the east coast  (Read 475 times)

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Re: Violence on the east coast
« Reply #30 on: October 19, 2020, 03:45:07 pm »
The fault for that doesn't rest with the Mi'kmaq.
No, it rests entirely with Ottawa and of course Canadians who fall for the impression that if anyone is at fault it's probably those greedy angry commercial fishermen.

Out on the LaPerouse Bank this summer a growing fleet of indigenous fishermen with licences issued by their nation were catching 400 - 500 salmon a day. The shrinking fleet of non-indigenous fishermen that our nation licences were fishing right alongside them and were only able to catch 15 or so a day.  The reason is that the former fleet is pretty much unrestricted in the type of gear that's allowed and of course they can keep every species of salmon they can hook. Non-indigenous are, probably by rights, only allowed one type of gear and one can only keep one species of salmon which is probably more than the greedy bastards deserve.

Just as well that years of similar treatment by our nation has left them so worn out and beaten down they couldn't resist if they wanted too.  Having been there themselves not so long ago I'm pretty sure a lot of the native guys actually feel sorry for them.