by Christina King, Project Officer, AICFI
One of Eskasoni’s fishing boats, Uncle Roddie Gould.
The shore of Cape Breton Island’s Bras d’Or Lake in Nova Scotia is the home of the Eskasoni First Nation, the largest Mi’kmaw community in the world and the largest Aboriginal community in Atlantic Canada. Eskasoni is also the home of one of the largest and most productive Aboriginal commercial fishery operations in the region. In order to keep up with demand for its seafood products and continue the growth of their commercial fishery business, band owned and operated Crane Cove Seafoods recently expanded its fleet of fishing vessels to eight with the acquisition of a newly constructed 55 foot vessel the “Uncle Roddie Gould” to harvest sn ...
Tags: Atlantic Canada, Atlantic Integrated Commercial Fishery Initiative, Bras d’Or Lake, Cape Breton, Christina King, Crane Cove Seafood’s, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Eskasoni, Leonard Denny, Nova Scotia, Uncle Roddie Gould
