Fisheries and Oceans Canada sees what Doucette is doing as illegal because he is fishing out of season and will affect lobster conservation. Doucette and a few others from Potlotek have been fishing in the St. Peter’s Bay area of Nova Scotia since the beginning of October. Doucette says he is fishing under his inherent Treaty Right to fish, hunt and gather in pursuit of a moderate livelihood, with those rights upheld by a Supreme Court ruling. “We’re just trying to catch some lobster to sell and feed our kids and give our family a roof over their head,” said Mi’kmaw fisherman Craig Doucette.
Olsen said that implementing closures and cutting the number of traps in the Gulf of Maine would save just as many Bengal tigers as it would whales. Canada has made history at the world artistic gymnastics championships by winning bronze in the women’s team event. It’s the country’s first ever world medal in the team event, and earns them a berth in the event at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
If confirmed, the party’s sighting of roughly a dozen wolverines could document relatively uncharted behavioral territory for the species. In the absence of human food, like trash, the largest members of the mustelid family aren’t typically documented in numbers that large. Many lobstermen are pondering if it’s better to stay the course or if they should sell now while the fishery is still robust and there’s a market for boats, said Virginia Olsen, a leader in the Maine Lobstering Union and a fisherman out of Stonington. A group of archeologists and scientists warn the effects of climate change are impacting the preservation of some of the world’s most famous cultural sites and ancient artifacts that have yet to be discovered. Catching and selling lobster during the fall season is how some Mi’kmaw fishermen of Potlotek First Nation make a living.
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The animals, the largest members of the mustelid family, which also includes weasels and skunks, are more numerous in Canada but also found across the globe from Mongolia to Scandinavia. MacCartney, a wildlife guide with the Montana-based company Yellowstone Insight, said he came forward in the interest of the species, not self-interest. He said he went public at the advice of friends and scientists, including tracker Jim Halfpenny, researcher Jeff Copeland and a third person he declined to name. To be clear though, wildlife control operators don’t handle larger animals, like bears. When it comes to bears, you should call the New Hampshire Fish and Game department. That’s why Patrick recommends calling wildlife control operators — licensed professionals who know when it’s not breeding season and can remove animals by installing one way doors.
Environmentalists argue that the wolverines face localized extinction as a result of climate change, in part because they rely on spring snowpack to rear their young. But confirming the three men’s finding is difficult given the information that’s been made public. And without confirmation — or evidence beyond their word and distant photos — some researchers worry the sighting that rippled through media in the Mountain West may actually do more harm than good for the elusive creatures. Fishing gear dumped in the ocean includes 25 million pots and traps and 14 billion hooks. According to the authors, these are having a huge and deadly impact on fish and other marine life.
But he’s now looking to sell his gear and possibly join his brother and father, who now both run an oyster farm on the island. As for conservation-related concerns, the chief says Potlotek has done its own scientific studies, and that researchers found the nation’s small group of fishermen doesn’t have an impact on lobster stocks. The DFO would not say if it was investigating the cutting of traps but added, “Interference with any authorized fishery – commercial or Food, Social & Ceremonial – is illegal and may result in a fine up to $100,000. Any harvesters who have gear destroyed or tampered with should report incidents to the DFO and the RCMP.” Doucette says more than 140 of his traps were seized and each trap can cost between $60 to $70 dollars. The ruling involved Donald Marshall Jr., who was charged and convicted of three Fisheries Act infractions in 1993.
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He never sought to be one of the lobstermen who were still at the stern into their 60s or 70s, but now, at 50, he’s reconsidered his plan to stop fishing at 55. After a week of financial fallout following antisemitic remarks on social media and in interviews, Kanye West is commenting on those thoughts, as well as what he’s said about George Floyd and Black Lives Matter. Twitter will charge US$8 a month for its Blue service, which may include its sought-after ‘verified’ badge, new boss Elon Musk said on Tuesday as he seeks to boost subscriptions and make the social media network less reliant on ads. Astronomy enthusiasts have much to look forward to this November as meteor showers, a lunar eclipse and Uranus shining at its brightest are among the major events visible in the night sky this month.
This was one of the hunting techniques used by the first humans to have entered America after Paleolithic hunter-gatherers entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge. Even though his story was posted on a commercial tour company’s Facebook page, and Halfpenny’s account of their conversation differs, MacCartney said he wasn’t benefiting financially from the story. Moore said he returned later in the summer and saw another wolverine in the area, while someone else in his party saw two more. “They’re all just sort of tolerating each other because there’s so much food at the trash site,” Sawaya said. Rather than approaching the bear, on the right side of the snowfield, the suspected wolverines headed straight up a narrow spit of snow between the lower and upper field.
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