And now:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OTTOWA: October 5, 1999 OTTAWA - Canada's federal government came up with no plan to deal with the intense discord and threats of violence that have erupted between Indian and non-native fishermen, but said it will start talks to try to find a solution. The dispute follows a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that allows Indian fishermen to fish out of season. Fisheries Minister Herb Dhaliwal told a news conference that he would seek an agreement in a matter of days on how to deal with the court's verdict, which Indians say was long overdue, but which non-native fishermen say will deplete the fishery. "We're taking this very, very seriously," Dhaliwal insisted at an Ottawa news conference as he outlined his goal of a "more contemporary relationship" between native and nonnative fishermen. In effect, Dhaliwal will, for now, allow Indians in the Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to continue to harvest lobster and other fish while non-natives sit idle. The Indians say this was simply a recognition of a 239-year-old treaty, which the Supreme Court upheld, but Dhaliwal's remarks infuriated many nonnative fishermen, who have had to pay as much as C$200,000 for license to trap lobster. "Somehow we can't get it through their skulls in Ottawa that we're dealing with a very, very tense situation," Maritime Fishermen's Union Executive Director Mike Belliveau said after watching the nationally broadcast news conference. "We had people who were watching Dhaliwal's press conference, and are more furious as the result of it," he told Reuters from New Brunswick. Belliveau said catch rates at this time of the year are up to 10 times as much as in the spring, and the Mi'kmaq Indians were scooping them up. "If you take them all out, they're not going to be there in the spring. It's not rocket science," he said. "He won't have an agreement in days." Peter Stoffer, an opposition member of Parliament from Nova Scotia, scoffed: "All we hear from this minister is that we have to talk more...Right now the lobsters need a rest and no one should be catching them out of season." The Supreme Court verdict was the latest in a string of decisions taking a generous view of native rights that have left governments scrambling to reconcile those rights with sometimes difficult realities on the ground. In the Nova Scotia legislature on Friday, Mi'kmaq Grand Captain Alex Denny defended his people fishing now as the natural result of frustration built over centuries: "What you're seeing now is not greed. It's anger, it is bitterness." He said giving fishing rights to the Mi'kmaq would only require reallocating 10 percent of the catch, but he added that he wanted compensation from Ottawa for the last 132 years. "We've gone to court, and we have won, so today let us celebrate," he declared. . Story by Randall Palmer REUTERS NEWS SERVICE Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&