— A Nova Scotia fisherman whose boat was stolen and burned Monday says he believes it was targeted because he is Aboriginal, as tensions continue over the Indigenous fishery in the area. But Alex McDonald said he gets along well with non-Indigenous lobster fishermen in the area and doesn’t believe any of them are to blame. There have been tensions in the area recently over the Indigenous ceremonial and food fisheries, and last month two non-Aboriginal men were charged with threatening Indigenous fishermen online. “I don’t do a whole lot of food fishing for lobster in the summer time, so it shouldn’t affect me at all,” he said. The roughly 950 lobster licence holders in southwestern Nova Scotia work in the most profitable fishing grounds in the country.

Source: National Post October 10, 2017 17:49 UTC