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The NunatuKavut Case for Fairness and Meaningful Participation in the Northern Shrimp Fishery Presentation to the Ministers Advisory Panel on LIFO June 10, 2016 We believe in the nation-to-nation relationship and are committed to making

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Presentation to the

Minister’s Advisory Panel on LIFO

June 10, 2016

“The NunatuKavut Case for Fairness and Meaningful Participation in the Northern Shrimp Fishery”

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We believe in the nation-to-nation relationship and are committed to making progress with the Government of Canada.

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The nation-to-nation relationship requires learning about us and understanding who we are.

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NunatuKavut means Our Ancient Land and is the territory of the Inuit of NunatuKavut – the Southern Inuit – who reside primarily in southern and central Labrador.

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Our traditional territory covers the entirety of south central Labrador, the adjacent marine areas and also extends westward to the now Labrador/Quebec border.

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The people of NunatuKavut.

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What the people of

NunatuKavut do.

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The places where our people live.

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The NunatuKavut Community Council (NCC) is the representative government of approximately 6,000

people who belong to this

territory.

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We are a people whose identity is shaped by the land, sea and ice. NCC's responsibility is to ensure the land, ice and

water rights and titles of its people are recognized

and respected as our Elders taught us.

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“Our vision is a self-sufficient and self-governing territory, which upholds the principles of inclusion and equality, while honouring its Inuit history, culture and tradition.”

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Our nation-to-nation relationship was clearly articulated with the

British-Inuit Treaty of 1765.

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NCC is a also a modern

land claimant

rganization.

Our Land Claim includes the Indigenous

rights,,titles and Treaty rights of the

Southern Inuit.

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The people of NunatuKavut have been

dependent upon the fishery (mammals and

fish) for as long as we have existed.

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NunatuKavut is the most

adjacent and our people

are the most

dependent on the commercial fishery

that occurs off southern/central Labrador (NAFO 2HJ).

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Yet we the have lowest allocations

f any adjacent Indigenous group.

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The total catch and biomass

ff Labrador (SFAs 5 & 6) is an
rder of magnitude greater

than all other SFAs combined.

Quebec Labrador Greenland Baffin Is. Hawke +3K SFA 6 Hopedale + Cartwright SFA 5 2G SFA 4 0B SFA 2 Territory

f Nunavut

SFA 3 70° 68° 66° 64° 62° 60° 58° 56° 54° 52° 50° 48° 46° 48° 50° 52° 54° 56° 58° 60° 62° 64° 66° 200 mile limit Nfld. 200 m. 500 m. fishing grounds

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It clearly abuts/overlays our Land Claim area and southern Inuit traditional marine use areas but we have

less than 1% of the allocation.

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DFO’s failure to apply adjacency and Aboriginal Rights during the northern shrimp fishery boom has been devastating.

NCC Enters Fishery

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And here’s our current situation.

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LIFO is not the answer.

It maintains status quo and marginalization. It severely constrains fishery and economic development for the southern Inuit of NunatuKavut. It is an abrogation of Adjacency, Historical Dependence and Indigenous Rights.

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We think there’s a better way; access based on established criteria.  Adjacency and Aboriginal rights.  Aboriginal Minimum Threshold

Quota Level.

 Historical attachment.  Economic Viability/Need.

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