As thousands of fishermen took to the sea in southwestern Nova Scotia for the beginning of the most lucrative lobster fishing season in the region, Mi’kmaq leaders are decrying the federal ...

The lobster fishery in Nova Scotia has come to a standstill, and some P.E.I. fishermen have been told to tie up their boats. In Nova Scotia, lobster pounds and plants are at near capacity. P.E.I.

The federal government and Sipekne’katik First Nation are asking the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia not to weigh in on the extent of the band’s claimed right to a self-governed treaty fishery.

Nova Scotia's fisheries minister and other provincial politicians, along with members of the commercial fishing sector, have said enforcement levels are not where they need to be in the lucrative ...

The Potlotek First Nation and Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs Monday dropped their civil suit against the Canadian federal government over fishing provisions. The groups announced that they ...

Chinese tariffs of 25 per cent on Canadian seafood exports, a soft U.S. market and rising costs for bait and other supplies were affecting the sector even before fishermen in lobster fishing areas 33 ...

A judge has turned down a request from a commercial fishing group to order a Nova Scotia First Nation to pay roughly $334,000 in legal costs stemming from a treaty rights lawsuit the band launched ...

Federal fisheries officers in Nova Scotia say they’re refusing some enforcement duties because of threats to their safety, as they await Ottawa’s response to their complaints. The union representing ...

Kent Smith is Nova Scotia's minister of fisheries and aquaculture. He just completed his first trip to China. (CBC - image credit) Premier Tim Houston says a change in the dynamic between federal ...

HALIFAX - The federal Fisheries Department says it has arrested 26 people since March 6 for illegally fishing baby eels in southwestern Nova Scotia. The department says that figure includes an ...