Fisheries committee  Thank you very much.

Fisheries committee  Yes, conservation is a tool now. It's a tool now to infringe on the rights of indigenous people. It is one of the means that government can use to infringe. When you're working with conservation, there are different ways to do things. It's really not that difficult to imagine di

Fisheries committee  Yes, it's important to have shared values between perspectives, such as the ability to be involved in fisheries governance. We see the Mi'kmaq having a willingness and a desire to initiate their own fisheries governance plans and opportunities. We also have to understand that we'

Fisheries committee  I'm not sure if I can answer that. These discussions need to happen. Hopefully, those who are doing the negotiations are well informed and have the processes in place to make sure they are well informed.

Fisheries committee  Mi'kmaw fishers and commercial lobster fishers are largely not interacting. That's pretty much how it's been. If negotiations are going on government to government, nation to nation, they are largely being excluded from those discussions. There's so much tension right now that it

Fisheries committee  There really isn't too much movement away from that, other than the use of different seasons. Fishers cannot be on the water at the same time as commercial fishers. They'll just be outnumbered. They use much smaller boats and much smaller gear, and it's hard to tell who is cuttin

Fisheries committee  I'll go first, Al, if that's okay. With regard to moderate livelihood, there is a concept; it's not really about a definition. That's unfortunately what takes over discussion. Until you have a process where people can actually work together to drive that concept...I hate to cal

Fisheries committee  That's something that was coming from the Marshall decisions, the second one. It's unfortunate that as Mi'kmaq people you're limited to what you can make in the industry, but at the same time, you can achieve those goals by fishing differently, fishing fewer traps. There are othe

Fisheries committee  Well, there are over 3,000 licences. Actually, I had somebody correct me and tell me that there are over 9,000 licences in Nova Scotia. I'm not sure how that number got calculated, but from my calculations, in the Maritimes region alone there are over 3,000. That's including New

Fisheries committee  Yes, definitely. Allison mentioned netukulimk. It's a way of life the Mi'kmaq people have. When you're trying to operationalize netukulimk.... There are certain things I've learned over the years, not just through research, but also through my position here at UINR. It's a “take

Fisheries committee  Yes. We have worked with DFO on salmon. That was a bit of a process. It started with consultation. It took a while to really understand that even though we have similar conservation values, there are different ways to get there. A few years into the process, when we started to

Fisheries committee  Yes, certainly. Thank you, Jaime. There are reasons for the season, but most of them are around the market conditions. Canada prefers to sell all the hard-shell lobster. There is a reproductive season for lobster as well. It's not a mass spawning event, so there is time needed f

Fisheries committee  Good evening, and thank you for the invitation to stand in front of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans as you undertake your study on the implementation of Mi'kmaq fishing rights to support a moderate livelihood. I'm Mi'kmaq myself, a member of the P