We’re not backing down’: Potlokek First Nation Chief says of lobster fishery – CTV
October 22, 2020
ST. PETER’S, N.S. — Things are heating up on and off the water in the fishery dispute on Cape Breton’s Potlotek First Nation.
The community’s chief says there appears to be no plan to return traps seized by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and that a meeting with DFO Thursday has left him with more questions than answers.
A fishing boat from Potlotek First Nation set out from St. Peter’s Canal on Thursday, but before it did, one of the Mi’kmaw fishers spoke out about the tension that’s been here since his community started its own fishery three weeks ago.
“We’re still trying to fish, and we still have settlers, saying that this is their water, their fish — but we ain’t saying that,” said Michael Basque.
