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August 31, 2023

Out-of-season lobstering stirs tension in Nova Scotia

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Tensions are rising in southwest Nova Scotia over unauthorized lobster fishing this summer in St. Marys Bay near Digby, with commercial fishermen and local MPs likening the situation to 2020 — when violence erupted over Indigenous harvesting outside of the federally regulated season.

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