It's urgent and essential to develop a fair and equitable process that gives first nations, commercial fishers and the government the chance to sit down together to find acceptable solutions for everyone.
The government's current fisheries management process is directly responsible for the tensions in southern Nova Scotia. The priority is the urgent need for an inclusive fisheries management process and a mutual understanding of the values on which this management must be based. We understand that first nations have traditional knowledge of the fisheries and that, as a result, this knowledge must also be heard by everyone. This can only be done through an inclusive process.