Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan said today the federal government is open to the creation of a First Nations fisheries authority, if that's the direction Mi'kmaw chiefs want to take. Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan said she is taking her lead from First Nations leaders on whether they want to proceed with establishing a new fisheries body. Non-Indigenous commercial fishers who work in the area call the Sipekne'katik fishery illegal and accuse it of concealing a large-scale commercial fishery, which the Mi'kmaq deny. "The main thing that needs to be understood is that fisheries management, at the end of the day, has to fit within the scopes of whatever fish ecology that you're trying to manage," Mallet said. An RCMP officer walks beside Brandon Maloney, director of fisheries for Sipekne'katik First Nation, on the wharf in Lower Saulnierville, N.S.

Source: CBC News October 01, 2020 22:41 UTC