The Marshall Decision

Supreme Court of Canada and Herb Dhaliwal (minister of Fisheries and ocean).

Issue: Donald Marshall, a mikmaq fisherman took a case to the Supreme Court of

Canada arguing that a treaty from 1760 gave him aboriginal fishing rights and he won the

trail justifying three conviction he had on fishing with out a license, fishing off season

and fishing with illegal nets. After the Court ruled in Marshalls favor, many native

fisherman started fishing off season as well. The Minister of Fisheries and Ocean, Herb

Dhaliwal, than banned fishing from the Miramichi Bay to conserve the sea life, which is

being endangered by the off season fishing. The Minister of Fisheries and Ocean

explained that the lobster are being caught before they have time to reproduce themselves,

but aboriginal fisherman fought that the federal fishing regulation

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This site had lots of information and some history on aboriginal rights. ca

This site had lots of information on the issue. The story probably would not

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keeping track of the lobster in the Miramichi bay. I liked what the writer thought of the situation, but It

probably isn’t very accurate.

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