Stakeholders call for dialogue as heightened tensions impacting fishing community in southwestern N.S.Standing by a bullet hole in his dining room wall, lobster buyer Geoffrey Jobert says such attacks have become an all-too-familiar reality in Nova Scotia’s largest fishery.
The 30-year-old and his younger brother came to the area from Halifax to take over his father’s processing plant five years ago and now employ 100 people. He’s enjoyed making friends in the francophone town and paddling along a stunning beach near his home when he has a few spare hours.But last year, threats started after he agreed to buy the catch of a licensed, commercial harvester who was no longer willing to provide his catch to facilities allegedly purchasing illegally caught lobster.
Jean-Claude Comeau, who operates a marine hydraulics business at the Meteghan wharf, said in an interview on Tuesday, “it’s time for people to take a stand” against the lawlessness. “I think they are being taken advantage of by these criminals because it’s still a grey business and an illegal business,” he said.
Glasgow has told a Senate committee hearing last year that the federal Fisheries Department has never fully honoured the Marshall ruling and improperly restricts the band’s right to sell its catch. She also told the committee in a written brief that the Fisheries Department has “made it impossible for our people to legally sell their catch.”
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