A Mi’kmaw band is raising concerns about the Sipekne’katik First Nation’s moderate livelihood fishery on St. Marys Bay in southwest Nova Scotia, and says its two-decade effort to repair relations with non-Indigenous communities in the area is “quickly being eroded.”
The chief of Bear River First Nation — a small Mi’kmaw band with reserve land close to St. Marys Bay — said no one consulted her band before Sipekne’katik launched its self-regulated lobster fishery last month.
In a letter sent to media and addressed to federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan, Sipekne’katik Chief…
