Bonus Episode: Consider the Lobstermen

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4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In Canada, tensions between indigenous fishermen and commercial fishermen have been simmering for decades. On today's bonus episode, from our friends at NPR's Planet Money team, we travel to Nova Scotia to figure out how a group of Mi'kmaw fishermen asserted their rights to fish and what happened when commercial lobsterman struck back hard.

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0:00.0	Hey there, Samuel O'Horsecassler here. You might have heard my voice on the podcast before,
0:04.5	most recently as a fellow with the Code Switch team. And I actually just started as a producer
0:09.4	with NPR's plan of money. But, you know, every time I try to get out, they just pull me back in.
0:15.6	I am sliding back into Code Switch's feed today to bring you something from my new team.
0:20.8	It's a story that is near and dear to my heart, you know, people who know me know that I love lobster,
0:26.3	I love bad puns, and I love talking about indigenous sovereignty. And so when I heard this story
0:31.5	called, considered the lobster man, it just checked all my boxes. So today, Code Switch is bringing
0:37.0	you that story as a bonus episode. It's reported by Planet Money's Alexi Horowitz-Gazzy,
0:42.2	and as you'll hear, he does a great job telling this lobster tale. I learned a lot about our
0:47.5	neighbors to the north, and it kept me on the edge of my seat till the very end. But not literally,
0:52.7	because we've all been working from home and I actually haven't sat up for writing years.
0:56.8	All right, onto the show.
1:00.8	This is Planet Money from NPR.
1:05.9	Just a quick language warning. Today's show is about sailors who often swear like sailors.
1:13.6	A few weeks ago, around 5.30 in the morning, I found myself steaming out into the bay of
1:18.3	Fundy off the coast of Nova Scotia, under the watch of Captain Alexander McDonald.
1:23.5	What's your name under there?
1:24.9	No, I'm not.
1:26.0	Granted and signing.
1:27.6	It's not your captain's log?
1:29.6	That's my log, man. I write everything down. You track everything. Anything going on out there.
1:34.5	You know, you track a bit, and you got no proof of it.
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