Lennox Island First Nation hoping for more access to lobster fishery – CBC

May 14, 2024

‘The fishery has had a tremendous positive impact in our community,’ says chief

The Lennox Island First Nation wharf is busy these days, in the band’s third year of treaty fishing for lobster, but Chief Darlene Bernard would like to see it busier.

Though there has been a commercial fishery based in the community off P.E.I’s North Shore for decades, Bernard said the newly exercised right to harvest lobster under treaties signed long ago means about 10 young families are better able to pay their bills.

With a waiting list of about the same number of people who would like to take part in the fishery, Bernard wants to see more commercial licences made available for Lennox Island through a Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) purchase program.

“We need to have an equitable share of the bounty of the resources in this province moving forward,” she said.

Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/lobster-lennox-island-first-nation-fishery-commercial-treaty-1.7202397