The owner of a lobster pound in Nova Scotia convicted of illegally selling lobster harvested by First Nations should be fined $75,000 and banned from the industry for two years, according to a federal Crown prosecutor. He said this was an accident where his workers inexplicably mixed commercial lobster at his pound with lobster harvested by First Nations. As part of their investigation, DFO officers searched Guang Da International and seized computers, thumb drives, paperwork and surveillance video. He said it was wrong to mix lobster harvested commercially with those under a communal licence by First Nations. The Crown disagreed, saying pound holding books and invoices seized by DFO indicated Sipekne'katik lobster was supplying a commercial operation.

Source: CBC News November 12, 2020 21:21 UTC