Terror, violence and organized crime Inside the lawless East Coast fishery
News Source : National Post
News Summary
- The lucrative East Coast fishery has been made a testing ground for federal government reconciliation policies
- More than a billion dollars has been spent in a wholesale transfer of access from traditional fishing communities to East Coast First Nations
- Organized crime and unscrupulous foreign buyers profiting off the consequent black market export trade have been terrorizing both commercial and First Nation fishing communities
How Ottawa pitted First Nations and traditional fishing communities against one another and sparked a war in Atlantic CanadaCommercial fishermen allege a large lobster fishery outside the commercia [+41081 chars]
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