Fishing: this halibut war that divides Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Canada

To Montreal Forgotten the cod war on the borders of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (SPM), when the Canadian coast guard arrested French fishermen, suspected of illegal fishing, at the end of the 1980s. A conflict restarts in the same waters but, this time, the object of discord is halibut. Canadian fishermen accuse their Saint-Pierre counterparts of “overfishing.” “We urgently need help from the Government of Canada to resolve this issue with France and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, whose aggressive actions are jeopardizing our otherwise collegial and collaborative relationship,” said the representing Canadian fishermen in the Atlantic provinces, president of the Atlantic Groundfish Council, Bruce Chapman. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed the grievances of his compatriots to his counterpart Gabriel Attal on the ...