They're asking the Supreme Court to force the fisheries minister to allow them to sell their licences.
Donald Publicover is one of 36 Class B lobster licence holders in the Maritimes that are involved in a legal battle with DFO over a policy that prevents them from transferring or selling their licences. - FileAnd this time the legal team for Nova Scotia lobster fisherman Donald Publicover and some of his peers is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to consider ordering Fisheries and Oceans minister Joyce Murray to let him sell or transfer his Class B licence.
Samson, who works with the Cox and Palmer law firm in Halifax, said a team spent the past summer travelling around Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, collecting interviews with the lobstermen who Class B licences.and will be using social media to raise awareness about the plight of the men who are still considered, under DFO policy, to be “moonlighters” even though they’ve fished lobster for 40 years or more.
When DFO announced, in February, the minister would not appeal the ruling, it was reason enough for Publicover and the others to hope their situation — described by Samson as being “in jail with no chance of parole” — would change. “As the former minister of several portfolios I cannot imagine the day that I would invite someone to my office once they arrive there to tell them to be quiet,” he said. “We were shocked.”Late Wednesday night Minister Murray’s communications director, Kevin Lemkay, refuted Samson’s recollections of what the minister said to Publicover in that May meeting.
“I understand you have specific circumstances I am aware of but I am here to hear about the class of licences as a whole. Doug is on the line, if there’s anything in the way of new perspective or information you would like to share, Doug is happy to have a meeting with you on that, but this meeting will not be about individual licences.On the broader issue of the Class B licences,committed to the fair treatment of all fish harvesters.
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