Terror, Violence and Organized Crime: Inside the Lawless East Coast Elver Fishery
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In the chill dark of a March night on a Nova Scotia river, a hip-wader-wearing woman put Canda’s sovereignty to the test.
Or rather, the 40 or so net-wielding members of Sipekne’katik First Nation on the opposite bank were calling Canada’s bluff.
They caught juvenile American eels (elvers) under their own band-issued licenses in defiance of a Fisheries Act requiring them to have licenses approved by the federal fisheries minister.
“I think it was the fourth call to DFO I asked their dispatch if they..."
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