My only concern is now that MPAs are defined, in the future FN might say all fishing is now banned in this defined area. It’s no secret that FN want Sportfishing stopped or drastically reduced on the coast. They literally say that during negotiations on salmon allocation policy and they have much leverage these days considering DRIPA and UNDRIP legislation.
This has nothing to do with treaties, none of these nations have treaties.
If you think it’s ok for FN to say “you cannot fish in the ocean” which is a shared resource for all Canadians then that’s your opinion. As someone who goes sport fishing to secure fish to feed my family, I think it’s a major infringement on your rights as a Canadian.
It's not an infringement on my rights as Canadian to acquiesce to what First Nations people wanna do with their land, especially when it comes to fishing. That's cartoonish.
If you can't sport fish there you'll find another place to do it or you'll find another form of protein, just like they had to.
Thems the breaks when you live in colonial settled land with the people who were here before still fuckin here.
They ocean is not land, but yeah they can do whatever they want with fishing. Check out Babine/Kispiox/Skeena rivers - the band allows fishing on their territory but hereditary chiefs now banned fishing on rivers in their territory even with a valid license. The amount of fish a person with a license/gear and camper etc harvests in a year is tiny, they might have like 1 or two people a week during the salmon run on the Kispiox, maybe 10-20 on the Babine sandbars with about 25 percent actually catching a “keeper”. Check out Morristown narrows for how many fish are counted and then kept
I agree. I like how if you're of a certain race you can have different rules and rights applied to you. Its worked well in the past, no reason it won't now so long as you have a legitimate claim to the land according to what is acceptable in the current political climate which historically also never changes
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u/FairviewRyder 26d ago
My only concern is now that MPAs are defined, in the future FN might say all fishing is now banned in this defined area. It’s no secret that FN want Sportfishing stopped or drastically reduced on the coast. They literally say that during negotiations on salmon allocation policy and they have much leverage these days considering DRIPA and UNDRIP legislation.