The night offers ideal coverage for sabotage acts in sleeping fishermen villages along the southern shores of Nova Scotia.
Cut -up buoys, stolen lobster boxes, mysterious fires. These are just some of the acts of vandalism on the quays where lobster fishermen are locked up in combat for more than three decades.
Lobstermen have a simple way to frame the dispute: think of the generosity of the ocean like a pie. They ask who should obtain a room and which is the fairest way to divide it between white Canadians who built the commercial lobster industry and the indigenous peoples that have been historically left out.
The federal government, which regulates peaches, hesitated to settle the politically heavy issue, alienating the fishermen at war on both sides.
The conflict has created deep ruptures within fishing communities. The criminals have entered the equation, according to the authorities, benefiting from illegal fishing and lobster trade.
The dispute raises thorny questions about indigenous rights, economic equity, resource conservation and the future of the Canadian lobster industry.
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