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Fisherman’s Pride is incorporated as a primary resource harvester and seller of inshore seafood, based on the Lennox Island First Nation reserve, on Lennox Island, in the province of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Fishman’s Pride is a communal commercial stakeholder in the inshore fishery around PEI, owning various fishery licenses and quotas. The Business is owned by the band and operated by
Band members, employing to the best of their ability, Mi’kmaq community members. The bulk of the revenue is earned through the harvest and sale of lobster, and to a lesser amount, snow crab. The lobster fishery is prosecuted with Band owned vessels and gear operating mostly from the wharf located at Lennox Island.
Minigoo Fisheries is owned and operated by the Lennox Island First Nation. As such, it is the only lobster processing plant in Canada owned and operated by aboriginal people. The workforce includes aboriginal and non aboriginal workers from nearby communities working side by side on the production line. The processing facility is located on aboriginal lands in the province of Prince Edward Island, operating under a Government of Canada processing licence.
HyWater Fine Foods is the exclusive marketer of lobster products processed by Minigoo Fisheries. The new brand was introduced to international buyers during the Boston Seafood Show and the Brussels Seafood Show in the spring of 2010 to what has been termed " a very positive response.
Social and Ceremonial Fisheries, the Mi’kmaq of Canada have a constitutionally protected right to fish for food, social and ceremonial purposes, limited only by conservation needs. There is a process that Mi’kmaq follow to document this fishery and the Lennox Island First Nation believes that all measures must be taken to preserve the valuable natural resource of the sea, for all future generations.
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