Digby Provincial Court Archives

List of 54 Mi’kmaw fishers charged with fishery offences

September 25, 2023 Maureen Googoo

Ku’ku’kwes News has been tracking the court cases of 54 Mi’kmaw fish harvesters from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick who are before the Nova Scotia courts for fishery-related offences. Trials are either already underway or […]

Nova Scotia judge dismisses charges against three Mi’kmaw fishermen

January 10, 2023 Maureen Googoo

A Nova Scotia provincial court judge has dismissed fishery charges against three Mi’kmaw lobster fishermen who argued they had a constitutionally protected treaty right to catch and sell fish to earn a moderate livelihood. In […]

Nova Scotia judge reserves decision in treaty fishing rights case

October 19, 2022 Maureen Googoo

A Nova Scotia provincial court judge has reserved his decision in a court case that involves the treaty right to fish to earn a moderate livelihood. Leon Knockwood, 27, James Nevin, 38, and Logan Pierro-Howe, […]

Mi’kmaw lawyer says federal government wants to limit treaty rights in Marshall decision through the courts

September 15, 2022 Maureen Googoo

A lawyer who is representing several Mi’kmaw fishermen in three separate fishery trials in Nova Scotia says the federal government is using the courts to limit where his clients can practice their treaty fishing rights. […]

Moderate livelihood treaty right at centre of fishery trial in Nova Scotia

September 9, 2022 Maureen Googoo

A trial involving three Mi’kmaw fishermen who say they were exercising their treaty right to fish for a living when they were charged with fishery offences is currently underway in Digby, N.S. James Nevin, 38, […]

Mi’kmaw fisherman using 1752 treaty, ancestry in legal battle with DFO

July 20, 2022 Maureen Googoo

A Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw fisherman says he has a constitutionally protected treaty right to catch and sell fish because he is a direct descendant of the Mi’kmaw Grand Chief who signed one of the Peace […]

Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw fishermen sue DFO for racial profiling, infringing on treaty rights

March 26, 2019 Maureen Googoo

Four Mi’kmaw fishermen from Nova Scotia are suing the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for charging them with fisheries violations and seizing their catch in 2015. Mark Howe, 59, Jeremy Syliboy, 36, Alex McDonald, 57, […]

ANSMC lawyer says stay of fishery charges shouldn’t affect negotiations with DFO

November 9, 2018 Maureen Googoo

A legal advisor for the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs says the outcome of a recent court case involving Mi’kmaw fishermen charged with illegally lobster fishing shouldn’t affect negotiations between the assembly and the […]

“Do not accept any food fishery tags,” Sipekne’katik fisherman advises following court case

October 18, 2018 Maureen Googoo

A Nova Scotia band councillor who is also a Mi’kmaw fisherman is advising his fellow lobster fishers not to use food fishery tags issued by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans if they want to […]

DFO lays charges against company for selling food fishery lobster

July 23, 2018 Maureen Googoo

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has charged a business and its owner in southwestern Nova Scotia with selling lobster caught under an Aboriginal communal fishing license. DFO says it laid charges against a company […]