‘It’s total BS’: Trump video taking aim at Canadian fishers, N.B. company scrutinized
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Canadian fishers are being accused of 'pillaging' fish from American waters in a video posted by U.S. President Donald Trump on social media.
Canadian fishers are being accused of “pillaging” fish from American waters in a video shared by U.S. President Donald Trump on social media.
The video, which Trump posted on July 5, alludes to a now-dismissed lawsuit against a New Brunswick seafood company over foreign ownership allegations.
“So here we have Canadian exploitation of U.S. natural resources. Does that make any sense today?” Phil Zalesak, president of the Southern Maryland Recreational Fishing Organization, says in the video.
Also in the video, Capt. Michael Frenette, a licensed fishing guide from Louisiana says, “The only two states that are allowing it are being pillaged by foreigners and that’s a fact.”
They’re referencing a longstanding controversy over allegations of overfishing the Menhaden, a small fish in the Chesapeake Bay.
A speaker in the video alleges two thirds of the fish are being “removed by a Canadian company,” alluding to Cooke Inc., a seafood company based in Saint John, N.B.
Former MP Rick Perkins, who represented the riding of South Shore—St. Margarets in Nova Scotia, had a strong reaction to the video.
“I saw it on X like everybody else, I actually reposted and responded to it saying it’s total BS,” he said.
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