Consider the lobstermen

Planet Money

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🗓️ 4 December 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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A tense conflict between Indigenous fishermen and commercial lobstermen flared up in Nova Scotia in the fall of 2020. Today, how it all got started and how the Canadian government added fuel to the fire. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:06.5	Just a quick language warning.
0:08.0	Today's show is about sailors who often swear like sailors.
0:14.2	A few weeks ago, around 5.30 in the morning, I found myself steaming out into the bay of
0:18.6	Fundy off the coast of Nova Scotia, under the watch of Captain Alexander McDonald.
0:24.5	What's your name under there?
0:31.5	I'm not sure.
0:35.5	It's not your captain's log.
0:38.5	That's my log, man.
0:39.5	I write everything down.
0:40.5	You track everything.
0:41.5	You go on out there.
0:42.5	You track it.
0:43.5	You have no proof of it.
0:44.5	Alexander's a big guy in his late 50s.
0:45.5	He's got a wide grin and a graying ponytail tucked under his Cabela's baseball cap.
0:46.5	If Alexander sounds a little bit nervous, he has good reason.
0:49.5	Because he explains these can be hostile waters, and he's an indigenous fisherman, a member
0:54.7	of one of the bands of the MIGMON First Nation.
0:57.5	The Sipinacodic band of wild Indians.
1:03.5	With the most radical band on the east coast, the northern band that fights for our rights
1:08.7	as much as we do.
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