How Mi’kmaw communities are moving toward self-regulation in commercial elver fishery – CBC

May 20, 2025

8 communities develop a Treaty Right Protected management plan

As eight Mi’kmaw communities co-ordinate a federally recognized elver fishing plan, and others fish independently, tensions have grown over regulatory confusion and enforcement by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO).

Here’s what you need to now about the complex regulatory landscape surrounding the Mi’kmaw elver fishery.

First, a brief look back to the Marshall decision.

In 1993, Donald Marshall Jr., a Mi’kmaw man from Membertou First Nation in Nova Scotia, was arrested and charged for fishing and selling eels in Pomquet Harbour, near Antigonish, N.S.

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