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Communities push back as Kelly Cove salmon expansion heads to tribunal hearings
HALIFAX/K’JIPUKTUK, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE MI’KMAQ – From October 7–10, the Nova Scotia Aquaculture Review Board (ARB) will hear evidence regarding Kelly Cove Salmon’s proposal to expand its open net pen operations in Liverpool Bay. Kelly Cove Salmon Ltd., a subsidiary of Cooke Aquaculture, wants to add six new pens to its existing Coffin Island […]
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Media Advisory: Communities fight salmon farm expansion at Tribunal
What: Nova Scotia Aquaculture Review Board hearing on Kelly Cove Salmon’s proposed expansion in Liverpool Bay When: October 7–10, 2025 Where: Bridgewater, Nova Scotia (Days Inn – 50 North St, Bridgewater, NS B4V 4H1) or by livestream (register in advance here). Who: Ecojustice will represent Protect Liverpool Bay Association, who is participating as an intervenor. […]
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N.S. minister calls on Ottawa for help against illegal fishing – CityNews
Sep 2, 2025 Nova Scotia’s fisheries minister once again calling on Ottawa to address illegal fishing in the province. Last Friday, the Canadian fisheries and aquaculture ministers came together to meet in Iqaluit with federal fisheries minister Joanne Thompson. Nova Scotia’s Kent Smith releasing a statement shortly after the meeting, saying he once again pressed […]
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N.S. First Nation drops lawsuit over moderate livelihood fishery – 101.5 The Hawk
Jun 10, 2025 A Nova Scotia First Nation has withdrawn a lawsuit against the federal government. The Sipekne’katik band were seeking a declaration that the Fisheries Act didn’t apply to moderate livelihood fishing. No reason was given for the decision on Friday, it comes as Chief Michelle Glasgow was set to appear in court Monday […]
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Paqtnkek fishers call for unity in Mi’kmaw nation to address elver fishing – CBC
May 22, 2025 Paqtnek Mi’kmaw Nation chooses not to be involved with elver fishery over conservation concerns Often the first meal given to babies transitioning from their mother’s milk and the final meal for elders making their journey to the spirit world, the eel has significance in the Mi’kmaw culture. Kerry Prosper, an elder and councillor […]
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Sipekne’katik First Nation fishers say treaty elver fishery is ‘a peaceful thing’ – CBC
May 21, 2025 Sipekne’katik is 1 of 3 Mi’kmaw communities in Nova Scotia harvesting under its own management plan While the 2025 commercial elver season is underway in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Mi’kmaw fishers from Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia are exercising their treaty rights through a protest fishery. In 2025, Fisheries and Oceans Canada […]
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Lennox Island First Nation claims DFO seized lobster traps and violated Treaty rights – CTV News
May 20, 2025 Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) allegedly seized lobster traps deployed by the Lennox Island First Nation on Prince Edward Island that are protected by the First Nation’s Treaty Protected Fishery, said representatives from Lennox Island in a news release. “This is a constitutional Treaty right – not a privilege, not a negotiation, […]
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How Mi’kmaw communities are moving toward self-regulation in commercial elver fishery – CBC
May 20, 2025 8 communities develop a Treaty Right Protected management plan As eight Mi’kmaw communities co-ordinate a federally recognized elver fishing plan, and others fish independently, tensions have grown over regulatory confusion and enforcement by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). Here’s what you need to now about the complex regulatory landscape surrounding the Mi’kmaw elver fishery. […]
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Terror, violence and organized crime: Inside the lawless East Coast fishery – National Post
May 01, 2025 How Ottawa pitted First Nations and traditional fishing communities against one another and sparked a war in Atlantic Canada In the chill dark of a March night on a Nova Scotia river, a hip-wader-wearing woman put Canda’s sovereignty to the test. Or rather, the 40 or so net-wielding members of Sipekne’katik First […]
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For Mi’kmaq fishers working within Ottawa’s baby eel rules, it’s a ‘peaceful’ season – Times Colonist
GOLD RIVER — Some Mi’kmaq harvesters say working within Ottawa’s quotas for the contentious baby eel fishery is helping calm the tense atmosphere in their river workplaces. In the shallows of the Gold River last Friday night, as the tiny, translucent eels known as elvers emerged from the mud, Jay Pennell — a member of […]
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