Mi’kmaq fishing rights in southwestern Nova Scotia escalated this past week into violence, destruction and eventually an angry mob attack on Indigenous-used fishing pounds.Several hundred lobster traps have either been destroyed or seized by non-Indigenous commercial fishermen in the past month, and two Mi’kmaq fishing boats were alleged to have been set on fire by the same group.
Sipekne’katik Chief Michael Sack says his people receive threats ‘daily’ A massive fire erupted overnight Friday at a fishing pound used by Mi’kmaq in Central West Pubnico, burning it to the ground.Tensions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous fishermen have come to a head over fishing rights in Nova Scotia — a dispute that has a history spanning hundreds of.