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Tip: Your message to SUST-MAR must be html-free. So, BEFORE you hit SEND, please go to your "Format" pull-down menu and select "Plain text." Thanks! ____________________________________________________________________________ --=======6E3B6356======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-28B13DEF; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable some news from PEI... go to the websites for full articles ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=3Dthestar/Layout/Art= icle_Type1&c=3DArticle&cid=3D1068117068880&call_pageid=3D968332188854&col=3D= 968705899037 Fourteen arrested as herring protest turns ugly - Nov. 6, 2003. SOURIS, P.E.I. - A dispute over the herring fishery intensified today when= =20 14 protesters were arrested in Prince Edward Island after a nasty standoff= =20 with police. RCMP officers hauled away the Island protesters from the wharf in Souris=20 early today, leaving at least two with minor injuries. ------------------------------------------------------- http://nb.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=3Dnb_herringprotestmore20031= 104 Tensions rise at Souris wharf - Nov 4 2003 SOURIS =97 Police marched on protesting fishermen to allow five trucks=20 loaded with herring to leave the Souris wharf late Tuesday morning. The=20 protestors had allowed the trucks on to the wharf earlier to unload five=20 herring seiners from New Brunswick. The inshore herring fishermen are=20 protesting against the seiner fleet, complaining they are depleting the= stocks. ------------------------------- http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/11/06/seiner031106 Blockade by P.E.I. fishermen ends, again - 06 Nov 2003 12:12:07 SOURIS, P.E.I. - A blockade at a local P.E.I. school ended Thursday as=20 herring fishermen agreed to allow trucks to return to New Brunswick without= =20 their stock of fish. Fourteen people were arrested and the school was=20 forced to close Thursday as several hundred P.E.I. fishermen protested over= =20 seiner herring fishing. ---------------------------- http://nb.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=3Dnb_peiherringprotest200311= 06 PEI Herring protest ends - Nov 6 2003 03:16 PM EST ROLLO BAY =97 A blockade at Rollo Bay Consolidated School on Prince Edward= =20 Island ended as herring fishermen agreed to let trucks they held there=20 return to New Brunswick empty. The inshore herring fishermen are angry=20 about the presence of New Brunswick herring seiners off the north coast of= =20 P.E.I. ----------------------------- http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/10/29/souris031029 P.E.I. protesters blockade New Brunswick boats - 30 Oct 2003 SOURIS, P.E.I. - There was another tense standoff in Atlantic Canada on=20 Wednesday, and once again fishing rights were at the heart of the dispute.= =20 More than 200 fishermen blockaded the wharf in Souris, stopping three New=20 Brunswick seiners from unloading their herring catch. The seiners have now left, and are headed for Nova Scotia with the=20 remainder of their catch still in their holds. But trucks loaded with some= =20 of the herring from the vessels, are still trapped at the dock.=20 --=======6E3B6356=======-- ____________________________________________________________________________ Did a friend forward this to you? Join sust-mar yourself! Just send 'subscribe sust-mar' to mailto:majordomo@chebucto.ca
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