Canada cut the lucrative Maritime commercial baby eel fishery by 14 per cent this week and gave that quota to Mi’kmaw bands to implement a treaty right to earn a moderate living from fishing.
The quota cut is being closely watched because it was imposed without compensation by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) after the department cancelled a voluntary commercial licence buyback program for 2022.
The so-called “willing buyer-willing seller” approach has been used in the past to increase First Nations access.
“This has been a bullying exercise from the very beginning. You’re not going fishing. We’re going to take it,” said Brian
