SAPPORO--A lawsuit filed by a group of indigenous Ainu over fishing rights is effectively a test case aimed at confirming rights to land and natural resources that the ethnic minority had ...

and has been closely involved in negotiating cultural fishing rights from the other side. He has sympathy for the Aboriginal fishermen’s position but believes that giving them unrestricted ...

A 17th-century fishing treaty between a New York indigenous tribe and the then-royal government isn’t enforceable over ...

Australian National University Indigenous policy researcher Janet ... it's all about our survival as a people," he said. "Without our fishing rights … we would lose our identity." ...

Criminals have entered the equation, authorities say, profiting from the illegal fishing and trading of lobsters. The dispute raises thorny questions about Indigenous rights, economic equity ...