United we fish: the fight against the privatization of the fisheries is creating new alliances between native and non-native fishing communities in southwest Nova Scotia.
Alternatives Journal › Vol. 29 Nbr. 4, September 2003
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United we fish: the fight against the privatization of the fisheries is creating new alliances between native and non-native fishing communities in southwest Nova Scotia.
HUBERT SAULNIER'S family has been fishing in the Bay of Fundy for as long as there have been Acadians in Nova Scotia. These days a lobster licence, like the one Hubert bought for 25 cents in the early 1960s, goes for just under one million dollars. If you're lucky enough to have one, you can make a good living.
Of course, there's not much of a family fishery left in the Maritimes. People used to make a living catching cod and other ground fish, scallops, and herring. In the past 20 years thousands of independent fishers have been squeezed out of those fisheries and replaced by a handful of large corporations. Lobster remains a family fishery. It is the backbone of many coastal economies and cultures--and it is guarded with a sense of urgency. So when the Supreme Court handed down its Marshall decision in September 1999 affirming Fi...See the full content of this document
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