Research and Publications by filmmaker, Martha Stiegman

United We Fish
Originallly published in Alternatives Journal, vol. 29, no. 4 (2003)

The Supreme Court’s 1999 Marshall decision has changed the face of the Atlantic inshore fishery, and it hasn’t been a smooth transition. Conflict and confrontation made news headlines. But in some places the decision provided the context for a coming together of native and non-native fishing communities. These budding alliances are becoming a movement to build more sustainable and inclusive, community-based management of the Atlantic fisheries in the face of ever-increasing corporatization of the industry and privatization of fisheries management.

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In the Same Boat?   Fisheries Privatization, Community-Based Management and First Nation/non-First Nation Alliances in Nova Scotia.

in Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada. L. Adkin (ed.) UBC Press. 2008.