The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has renewed Moderate Livelihood understandings with three Mi’kmaw communities around Cape Breton Island, increasing the number of fisheries traps they can access and earning a living. The fishery will not harm lobster stocks, because the fishing licences already exist and are not otherwise being used.

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