Canada has five American fishermen on the U.S.-Canada border in arrest. (figure Source: CBC)
Overseas Network the United States and Canada border areas recently regeneration incident! Five U.S. fishermen were arrested on the Canadian side of the U.S.-Canada border, four of them from the Pasakodi tribe in Maine, the Canadian broadcaster (CBC) reported on the 18th.
The five U. S. citizen admitted the day after their arrest that they were illegally fishing for lobsters on the border between New Brunswick and Maine in Pasadena Cove, the United States, the report said.
Canada's law prohibits foreign citizen from engaging in commercial fishing in its waters, the report said, but some of the Pasakodi aborigines believe they have the right to fish in either side of the waters on the grounds that their traditional territory straddles the United States and Canada.
"I don't think it's Canadian or American, it's just a bay where our ancestors have been fishing for more than 10, 000 years," said Adam Newell (Adam Newell), a fisherman at Pasadena Cody. Why should we stop fishing because of the new system and stop using the resources of Pasadena Cody? "
Newell said he would not specifically fish for lobsters in Canadian waters, but because he lived only a mile from the U.S.-Canada border, he would not be able to make a living unless he occasionally crossed the border.
It is understood that Pasadena Cody Bay (Passamaquoddy Bay) is a small bay in the western part of the Atlantic Bay of Findy, between Maine and Canada's New Brunswick Province, at the mouth of the St. Chloe River. There are rare huge tidal currents in the bay, rising and falling twice a day with about 2 billion cubic meters of flow in and out of the bay, with an average tidal height of about 5.5m.
Since the end of the 18th century, the United States and Canada have been debating the exact division of the border between Pasadena Cody Bay. Competition among fishermen has intensified in recent years as lobster production has soared in the region. Not long ago, Canadian media reported that U.S. Customs and Border Protection Enforcement officials had recently stopped and questioned Canadian fishing vessels in disputed waters between the two countries. Canada's government then responded that it would investigate the incident.