The Lennox Island First Nation says 300 lobster traps belonging to Indigenous fishers were seized by federal fisheries officers over the weekend. Chief Darlene Bernard says the Malpeque Bay seizures were shocking because her community has exercised its treaty right to manage the lobster fishery since 2022. Bernard says Lennox Island’s 15 fishers set out 15-hundred traps when the federally regulated fishing season began late last month. A spokesperson with Fisheries and Oceans Canada did not confirm the seizures, only saying that Ottawa has authorized one thousand lobster traps for Lennox Island First Nation fishers for the 2025 season.
