Aboriginal fishermen on Georges Bank are worried. Very worried. For hundreds – if not thousands – of years their ancestors have fished the rugged, rocky coastlines and the more subdued shorelines and sandy beaches on and surrounding the Gulf of Maine, including Georges Bank.
From the sturdy hollowed log canoe of the Wampanoag to the reliable birch bark craft of the Mi'kmaq, Beothuk and Maliseet/Passamoquoddy peoples, native populations hunted many species of fish, as well as whales and seals.
After having been essentially excluded from the commercial fishery in Nova Scotia for some time, Aboriginal fisherman have seen a dramatic growth in their ranks in the past ten years and they are worried that this productive period could come to an abrupt end by the dangers posed by recent moves to approve oil and gas production on Georges Bank.
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