It's a story you never hear about. The fishers I look after.... None of us fight with the Mi'kmaq. We fish side by side, and we work side by side. It's the untold story of the upper Bay of Fundy.
I believe that the moderate livelihood has potential to save the commercial fishery and vice versa. Without a strong commercial fishery, the Mi'kmaq don't have the leverage they need to get access to the resources for their communities. We have infrastructure, we have knowledge, and we are the largest independent industry in Nova Scotia, so we have economic power, within reason. We have a lot to teach the new entrants as well.
I believe that, if we ever work side by side, we can start getting the politicians and governments to start working on these other activities and perhaps, instead of shutting fisheries down and taking from one to give to the other, you could start improving the habitat, implementing the act and creating more fish and more fish habitat to enable all fishers to fish side by side, in harmony.