By John Chilibeck Local Journalism Initiative A New Brunswick entrepreneur whose family pioneered the baby eel industry in Canada is suing Ottawa again after it told her she would likely lose nearly 90 per cent of her business to First Nations and other people who want to get in on the lucrative fishery. In a filing in the Court of King\u2019s Bench in Fredericton on Dec. 9, Mary Ann Holland accuses the defendants, who include three successive federal fisheries ministers and eight high-ranking officials in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, or DFO, of having \u201cengaged in a carefully calculated plan\u201d over the years to drive her \u201cout of business,\u201d and give it away to First Nations and other fishers. \u201cSuch a plan represents patent gross abuse,\u201d that they know… <\/p>\n
By John Chilibeck Local Journalism Initiative A New Brunswick entrepreneur whose family pioneered the baby eel industry in Canada is suing Ottawa again after it told her she would likely lose nearly 90 per cent of her business to First Nations and other people who want to get in on the lucrative fishery. In a filing in the Court of King\u2019s Bench in Fredericton on Dec. 9, Mary Ann Holland accuses the defendants, who include three successive federal fisheries ministers and eight high-ranking officials in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, or DFO, of having \u201cengaged in a carefully calculated plan\u201d over the years to drive her \u201cout of business,\u201d and give it away to First Nations and other fishers. \u201cSuch a plan represents patent gross abuse,\u201d that they know... <\/p>\n