Second lobster boat torched amid tensions over Aboriginal fishery in Nova Scotia
SAULNIERVILLE, N.S. — A Nova Scotia fisherman whose boat was stolen and burned Monday says he believes it was targeted because he is Aboriginal, as tensions continue over the Indigenous fishery in the area.
But Alex McDonald said he gets along well with non-Indigenous lobster fishermen in the area and doesn’t believe any of them are to blame.
“I know the other fishermen so I don’t believe it was my fellow fishermen that fish beside me. For all the years that I’ve been fishing I haven’t had any problems with anybody. I fish the same licence that they fish,” he said Tuesday.
McDonald said he thinks someone is trying to create trouble — noting that a dry-docked, non-Aboriginal fisherman’s boat was burned in Weymouth North last week.