According to DFO, since June 1 it has seized six fishing boats (all of which remain in DFO’s custody), 1,501 traps and nearly ...

The Nova Scotia Supreme Court has rejected a commercial fishing group’s request to recoup CAD 334,000 (USD 238,312, EUR ...

On the heels of two recent seizures of lobster by federal fisheries officers, a commercial fishing rep is wondering what ...

Though illegal, out-of-season lobster fishing continues off the south coast of Nova Scotia, Canadian fisheries minister Diane Lebouthillier has still not returned calls from Kent Smith, the east coast ...

A judge has turned down a request from a commercial fishing group to order a Nova Scotia First Nation to pay roughly $334,000 ...

Nova Scotia’s PC government wants to become a major energy exporter, but the fishing industry that currently dominates the ...

Under siege from violent terrorists, Mi’kmaq lobster fishermen turned to social media and chefs to make their voices heard and save their livelihood. Ivy Knight spent a decade as a line cook before ...

When Mike Sack handed out lobster licenses to Indigenous fishers in Nova Scotia last month, he expected some pushback from commercial fishers. But the Sipekne’katik First Nation chief did not foresee ...

It’s always fascinating to see what you’ll find on the beach or in the ocean in the days after a hurricane makes landfall. Hurricane Nicole, a powerful category 4 hurricane, hit Bermuda last week. In ...

Fisheries and Oceans Canada has developed integrated fisheries management plans to promote a more holistic approach to fisheries management. Yet these management plans maintain an emphasis on the ...

Jason Marr, an Indigenous lobsterman in Nova Scotia, was unloading his live catch at a storage facility earlier this month when, he said, an angry mob of 200 commercial fishermen began pounding on the ...